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Uploaded by on Jul 12, 2008

This is a short video showing how a harmonium, which is a free reed instrument, is tuned. Please note that it DOES NOT teach you to tune it and you should not try to tune it. This is not an instructional video.

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  • @ Musique3579: can you upload a video that shows this method of tuning?

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  • I have found that using very fine sandpaper the BEST way to tune a Brass reed. The Reed Scraper can get one in alot of trouple real fast. Whew! My channel page is playing right now :"A Reed Organ Recital" in which you can hear how well I did tuning this instrument of nearly 300 reeds.

  • hello

    I found an used harmonium and some of the keys are off sounding..is it hard to tune it yourself?

  • Hello,

    I need to tune my Pakrashi harmonium. Do you know any one who can do this in Mumbai? Thank you for the help.

  • Your video shows the tuning in sort of a crude manner, sorry. This is fine for *production* (at the factory), but such quick and aggressive tuning might break reeds. Regular folks need a GOOD chromatic tuner. Guitar tuners have range-limits, so a good strobe tuner would be ideal (strobo-flip). I support the underside of the reed with metal from a set of feeler-gauges while scraping. Improperly tuned reeds have sideways cuts that make them prone to breaking, so those should be left alone.

  • Hello, yes, it is a video of tuning the vaja (punjabi for harmonium - for the non-punjabis:) You will need to learn it from a tuner. It is not something you can read from a book.

  • The video is not clear enough to see what you are doing? I am restoring a harmonium and have taken it all apart to refinish it, the wood is not a good quality but it still plays okay. I bought the book called The Harmonium Handbook that is meant to guide one in tuning but I wondered if you could help me in the interim.

  • Sorry didnt mean t be rude. Is that you tuning the vaja? I would like to learn to tune a harmonium

  • ahhahhaa.. i was wondering what you meant. then i looked at the video. lol.. it's written kacchera btw.

    anyway, it's cool. i'm actually thinking of getting a bina harmonium.

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