I may be in the minority but harmonium always felt tonally deficient, as compared to flute, sitar, santoor, jaltarang & the likes. Every note is a bunch of tone

I may be in the minority but harmonium always felt tonally deficient, as compared to flute, sitar, santoor, jaltarang & the likes. Every note is a bunch of tones in a tight band instead of puretone, probably due to how the airflow goes over the note-producing parts. Its sounds like a medieval autotune. The closest approximation I can imagine are the church organs. PS. I was trained classically in Hindustani classical & owned a harmonium. I preferred Sitar accompaniment to set the scale in my vocals.