diapason
Example Sentences
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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
In 1866 oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos.
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
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
I have every admiration for Liszt's wonderful playing, with its diapason of all the moods between the extremes of fiery frenzy, and utmost delicacy.
From A Day with Robert Schumann by Byron, May Clarissa Gillington
