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
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
When the organ sounds its joyous diapason, Cardinal O'Connell will listen with the ears of a notable composer.
From Time Magazine Archive
For minutes, a diapason of booming whistles from the grey ships in the North River seemed to drown out everything.
From Time Magazine Archive
Montre, mon′tėr, n. a flue-stop the pipes of which show from without, usually the open diapason of the great organ: an opening in a kiln wall.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
