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
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
Families of old grads began to donate memorial stops�a double open diapason here, a contra bombard there, a tuba sonora, a tromba batalla or a vox angelica.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exhibitions were given, the organ of critical praise swelled in diapason.
From Time Magazine Archive
The diapason treble register is known as “melodia”; different makers occasionally vary the use of fancy names for other stops.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
