Harmonium

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Harmonium \Har*mo"ni*um\ (h[aum]r*m[=o]"n[i^]*[u^]m), n. [NL.
     See {Harmony}. ]
     A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially
     designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by
     forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the
     vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or


     two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  harmonium
       n : a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the
           reeds by bellows [syn: {organ}, {reed organ}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "harmonium":
     Hammond organ, baroque organ, calliope, calliophone, choralcelo,
     electric organ, electro-pneumatic organ, hydraulic organ, melodeon,
     melodica, orchestrelle, organ, organophone, pipe organ, reed organ,
     seraphine, steam organ, symphonion, tracker-action organ,
     tubular-pneumatic organ, vocalion