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
Once when he was singing in John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s Baptist Church his thunderous diapason is said to have made the old tycoon whisper to a retainer: "Did you bring an umbrella?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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
For minutes, a diapason of booming whistles from the grey ships in the North River seemed to drown out everything.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
