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diapason

How to use diapason in a sentence

We have worked this out for all classes of tone—string, flute and diapason—and the law holds good in every instance.

Willis even went so far as to slot all of his Diapason pipes, and Cavaill-Coll sometimes adopted a similar practice.

The leathered Diapason, indeed, is now attaining a zenith of popularity both in England and America.

This was a large metal Diapason of ordinary construction, voiced on heavy wind pressure.

By no other means known to-day can anything approaching such grand and dignified Diapason tone be produced.

Dr. Brownjohn's voice was now so deep that it vibrated in the pit of Michael's stomach like the diapason of the school organ.

Floating out of the fog came a dull, grunting sound, a faint and far-away diapason, a marine whistle which announced a big chap.

Isolated fundamental tones are apt to be colourless and monotonous, like the diapason work on an organ.

The sonorous diapason of the great instrument disgorged itself through the doorway in wave upon wave of sound.

JOAN OF THE SWORD HANDS(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETT

The piercing cries of the gulls floating on the eddying wind were relieved against the blooming diapason of the sea.

DECEMBER LOVEROBERT HICHENS

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985