{"product_id":"the-harmonium-handbook-owning-playing-and-maintaining-the-devotional-instrument-of-india-satyaki-kraig-brockschmidt-pb-new-age-books","title":"The Harmonium Handbook: Owning, Playing \u0026 Maintaining The Devotional Instrument Of India |Satyaki Kraig Brockschmidt|PB|New Age Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description The book provides detailed instruction in how to play, maintain and repair this popular devotional instrument. It also reveals the colorful history of free reed instruments such as the harmonium, which dates back to the time of Marco Polo. The story behind the modern version of the harmonium is fascinating testimony to the love, skill, innovation and intermingling of many of the world's great cultures. The book reveals the history of the Indian harmonium from Ancient China to Europe and America. The essentials of owning and caring for Indian harmoniums, helping them give many years of service. How to play the harmonium in a variety of styles, from the simple to the complex, including single note melody, melody with a drone, chords and other more advanced methods (a complete appendix of chords and chord inversions is provided). How to explore the \"inner realms\" of the instrument and perform a variety of adjustments and corrections, including how to tune a harmonium's individual brass reeds. In The Harmonium Handbook, the author offers in written form the love of his heart and the depth of his experience as both musician and technician. Review \"...a welcome manual and important resource for music scholars and followers of spiritual paths alike. This book is a treasure.\" --Henry Doktorski, Founder of The Classical Free-Reed Company, and author of The Classical Squeezebox About the Author Satyaki (Kraig) Brockschmidt is a former Microsoft design engineer. He offers precision, inspiration and an occasional dose of wit in sharing both his musical and technical experience with the Indian harmonium, its history and technical details on how to care for it and play it. In his nearly nine years at Microsoft Corporation, he was highly respected throughout the software industry as a bestselling author, creative software engineer, and inspiring public speaker. His frequent seminars at software development conferences consistently drew sincere appreciation and praise from programmers and managers alike. Within Microsoft Satyaki made a number of significant contributions to the Windows and Office products. Satyaki is also a nationally certified Yoga instructor, a certified meditation instructor, and has received intensive stress-management training from the former Director of Stress Management for the hospital-based version of Dr. Dean Ornish\\\\\\'s Reversing Heart Disease program. He has sung both solo and choral in a number of domestic and international concerts. His interests include photography, cooking, graphic design, mechanics, and childhood education - in which capacity he appeared in a program that ran on National Public Radio. Satyaki is currently working on several books including a musical handbook and a spiritual perspective of his Microsoft career. He has launched Clarity Seminars Northwest to share the fruits of his extensive experience with others through in-house corporate training seminars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLBD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53557425930603,"sku":"9788178222134","price":300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/0445\/7067\/files\/file_7b296b65-502a-46db-ba1b-4a0afffee015.jpg?v=1784200042","url":"https:\/\/www.mlbd.com\/products\/the-harmonium-handbook-owning-playing-and-maintaining-the-devotional-instrument-of-india-satyaki-kraig-brockschmidt-pb-new-age-books","provider":"MLBD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}