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

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

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

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 Wildridge, T. Tindall