Creating Music: Harmonium

Shafeeq ahmad is a harmonium maker since 40 years, his shop is located in 'Pani wala talab', Lahore. He is passionate about his work and is hardworking. Ghulam Ali, Ghulam Abbas, Hussain bukhsh and wazeer Afzal are some popular harmonium players who used to order harmoniums from Shafeeq Ahmed. Harmonium was invented in france. It has different types i.e, scale changer, coupler, single ,double etc. Harmonium is made through a complex process.A single-bellow harmonium has 39 keys. Harmoniums needs to be tuned and involves scraping the metal.