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The box like accordian being played, does it have a specific name? Can't find anything like it!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZwzwxA-Sqs[/youtube]

Maybe a better view

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz4voHJGP_k[/youtube]

Shruti box

Indo-Pakistani harmonium

dubkitty wrote:Indo-Pakistani harmonium

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Those are equally cool though for sure Chank!

Thanks you 2

I love that album. I was wondering what that was too, but I figured it was just an Air Pump Organ.

Thanks dubkitty!

dubkitty wrote:Indo-Pakistani harmonium

Good call, I didn't bother to take close enough a look. Sorry for my shoddiness.

Probably because I prefer the instrument the harmonium is supplanting:

dubkitty wrote:Indo-Pakistani harmonium

jrmy and I went and saw ohsojayadeva perform his kirtan set in Providence a month or two ago, and he played one of these. It sounded amazing.

Harmoniums are awesome. I'm trying to convince one of my music professors to give me her old one since it's slightly broken.

i've been lusting after harmoniums for too many years. if only i was a krishna.

I see amazon has some blemished ones at $200, from what I gather they play in weird keys and typically are meant to be played alone because of that, I wonder how hard it is to use in a band setting, it just adds an awesome sounding ambient like filling that I totally dig.

The Black Angels use one from time to time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWKguze6d0[/youtube]

very cool droning tremolo thing

Chankgeez wrote:Shruti box

I have one of these, my mom got it in India in 1986, it is a DRONE instrument for prayer. It can make up to three notes at once, and nine different notes. Each note is controlled by rolling a wheel over and covering/exposing a hole, with reeds in it that determine the pitch. You can make really melodic sounds, or reall dissonant drone noises. I recently used it in a school project to simulate the creepy sounds of a cemetery.

the shruti box is also used in some forms of Indian music as a drone instrument in the role otherwise played by the tamboura; John McLaughlin introduces (by first name only!) two women shruti players on live Shakti recordings from the 70s.

I think in certain parts of South India having a single name is not uncommon.