diapason
Example Sentences
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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 minutes, a diapason of booming whistles from the grey ships in the North River seemed to drown out everything.
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
The mimeographed Bulletin was under no illusion that its cheerful chirping could drown out the harsh diapason from the rest of the press.
From Time Magazine Archive
Voices of expectation rolling on To diapason of a mighty choir, 'Mid ever-swooning throbbings beating low, Wove in hoarse fabric thunders—and O soul!
From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Madison Julius Cawein
