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
In 1866 oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos.
From Time Magazine Archive
The four bars are said by Plutarch to represent the elements, but it is more likely they were certain notes of the diapason.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge
