Tirupati Premium OM natural
The Tirupati Premium OM is ideal for anyone looking for a simply built and therefore very sturdy instrument with particularly fine workmanship and material quality. It offers a full, balanced and warm sound, good sustain and an appealing appearance.
The construction of the Tirupati Premium OM corresponds to our standard harmoniums. Besides two extra notes per register it also comes with an octave coupler enabling the higher octave to be played automatically, which results in a particularly rich, brilliant sound. Thanks to the use of higher quality reeds and woods and a more careful workmanship, the Tirupati Premium OM also has a more balanced and round sound, plays softer and also makes a better visual impression. A good instrument for people with slightly higher demands.
- 42 simple stick keys
- Range from 3 octaves and 5 halfnotes from C to F
- two high-quality reeds per note in middle and low register
- Range low register C2 - F5, middle register C3 - F6
- five stops for separate or joint playing of middle and low register
- four drone stops for continuous tones C, D, G, A
- rear-opening bellows with multiple convolution
- Octave coupling upwards
- removable cover with sliding opening (Jali)
- high-gloss shellac polish
- metal carrying handles right and left
- including padded carrying bag
- Light varnished pine case
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. In 2014 and the following years, instruments from Sharma Musicals had temporarily been sold in the USA under the name Bhava Harmonium and were recommended by renowned kirtan teacher Daniel Tucker back then. Sharma Musicals is a partner of India Instruments since 2016.
In India, our harmoniums are tuned to international concert pitch of a = 440 hertz. In Europe, however, they usually sound slightly higher at a = 441 to 442 Hertz due to the colder climate. The difference is small and not necessarily noticeable even to trained ears.
On request we can tune exactly to 440 hertz for 28 € additional charge.
Tuning to 432 hertz is also possible by arrangement for an additional charge.
NOTE:
Air temperature and blowing pressure influence the vibration frequency of harmonium reeds. At higher temperature and higher pressure, it decreases; at lower temperature, it increases. In our workshop in Berlin we tune at room temperature around 20 degrees Celsius.
Meassure: height 28 cm, width 61 cm, depth 33 cm, weight: 10.5 kg
Each instrument is individually hand-crafted and might differ from our description.
