What's the difference between clavier and harmonium?

Clavier


Definition:

  • (n.) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Musically trained listeners were instructed to sing the musical scale that first came to mind immediately after hearing short excerpts from Preludes of J. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier.
  • (2) The program has been applied to the task of analysing the metric structure of the forty-eight fugue subjects of the Well-Tempered Clavier by J S Bach.

Harmonium


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He and his group - singers, harmonium and tabla players - were supposed to play an hour but went on for much longer.
  • (2) Trip the light fantastic: Edinburgh's Harmonium Project – in pictures Read more “Then it becomes a very high octane rewind to the origins of the universe.
  • (3) It’s not merely that the trio’s sound is wildly eclectic and inventive, although it is: over the course of its 34 minutes, Dead variously offers nagging melodies, electronic experimentation, wheezing harmoniums, pounding beats that sound like they were inspired by 70s art-punks Suicide, and a hint of the rhythmic clatter of South African Shagaan electro.
  • (4) Deep Time has been devised by 59 Productions , the Tony award winners who created last year’s opening festival event, the Harmonium Project , which was beamed on to the Usher Hall, as well as the video sequences for the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony and light show events for Boeing, the UN and Sydney Opera House .
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Harmonium Project, also created by 59 Productions, was beamed on to Usher Hall during last year’s Edinburgh festival.

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