HARMONIUM
 Harmonium is portable classical music instrument working on the
system of bellows. The instrument is however more used in the North India than in the
South. The instrument forms the main accompaniment for all the theatre forms of Andhra
Pradesh in particular.
The instrument is a box shaped structure
with a keyboard covering two and a half octaves, with a bellow system operating on the
rear side. The keyboard is played with the right hand while the left hand operates the
bellows.
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