The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126049   Message #2797412
Posted By: GUEST,S O'P
27-Dec-09 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: Very cheap keyboard - suggestions?
Subject: RE: Very cheap keyboard - suggestions?
One-note-at-a-time music = monophony, although most harmoniums come with drone stops & many with couplers, the music remains essentially monophonic in a highly evolved melismatic tradition. On the floor? I've seen them played in all positions - even on shoulder staps by children busking on trains:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnZ9GbWqMrg

Note the use of chords too.