Harmonium - Tirupati Basic Pro
The Tirupati Basic Pro is a particularly simple, small, light, robust and inexpensive harmonium with a warm, rich sound. It‘s a perfect second instrument for classes, workshops and rehearsals and a great mobile accompaniment for frequent travellers.
The Tirupati Basic Pro, just like almost all common harmonium models, has two sets of reeds for sound production in bass and male register. This makes it sound similarly rich, warm and full as other harmoniums. The absence of extras like separate air chambers, drone notes, octave coupler or scale changer makes this harmonium surprisingly light. Despite its small size, it is relatively easy to play simple chords evenly without getting disturbing volume fluctuations, or to produce softer notes. Thanks to the very simple construction without any frills, the Tirupati Basic Pro is also particularly robust. All this makes it a perfect accompaniment for mobile people who usually have to carry the instrument by themselves. It offers little scope for higher artistic ambitions, though.
Features:
- 27 simple stick keys
- range of two octaves and one whole tone from G2 to A4
- 2 reeds per note in bass and male register
- top fold bellows
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cabinet made of pine wood*
- removable cover (jali) over key mechanism
- metal handles
- incl. padded bag with shoulder strap
- Dimensions: height 23 cm, width 40 cm depth 23 cm
- Weight 4.7 kg
* Pine wood is mainly used for harmoniums in the area around Delhi. It is lighter, but also much softer than the teak wood used in Mumbai and Kolkata. Therefore many pine harmoniums get small dents or other blemishes during production and transport to Europe - these are caused by the material and are not to be regarded as defects.
TIRUPATI is the international brand name for instruments from Sharma Musicals in Ghaziabad, a neighbouring city of Delhi. Sharma Musicals was founded in 1934 by Jagdish Prasad Sharma and is today one of the leading Indian harmonium makers. The current manager Mayank Sharma runs the business in the fourth generation. Thanks to solid infrastructure, long experience and good quality awareness, Sharma Musicals is a reliable supplier of all harmonium models typical of Delhi and North-West India. Instruments from Sharma Musicals are also marketed in the USA and are sold there under the name Bhava Harmonium. They are recommended by renowned kirtan teacher Daniel Tucker.
Want to LEARN how to play the HARMONIUM?
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