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
For 45 minutes he spoke, sometimes allowing his voice to swell in a sonorous diapason, sometimes letting it sink low as he leaned forward confidentially over the desk.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Not that the deep fundamental note of humanity is ever absent in his poems; the eternal diapason is there even when least overheard.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
