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...
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