About this minute
- Title
- Indian woman singing with harmonium
- Recordist
- David Mowatt
- Contributor
- Pitt Rivers Museum
- Location
- India
- Collections
- Collection 3
Collection 3 #27
You’ve been listening to the sound of a woman in India singing, accompanied by a ‘harmonium’. A harmonium is an instrument with lots of keys, like a piano, which makes sounds by blowing air through reeds. In this minute, the harmonium played very long sounds, which hardly changed throughout the song. These long sounds, which…