diapason

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Feldman was fascinated by the organ's principal pipes that produce the thickly textured diapason sounds that are pure organ, as opposed to the myriad other pipes with, say, flute-like or brass-like characters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2016

When the organ sounds its joyous diapason, Cardinal O'Connell will listen with the ears of a notable composer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rosamund Johnson was next, arranger of The Book of American Negro Spirituals, composer on the African five-tone scale, whose voice is like a diapason.

From Time Magazine Archive

Organist Roosevelt, feeling that his audience was with him, now began pulling out the stops and bearing down on the booming diapason.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to our regular musical notation, the fourth note given represents the normal pitch of diapason; the reason being that the eight-foot tone is the only one that gives the notes as written.

From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler