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
Exhibitions were given, the organ of critical praise swelled in diapason.
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
For minutes, a diapason of booming whistles from the grey ships in the North River seemed to drown out everything.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pyramidon, pi-ram′i-don, n. in organ-building a stop having wooden pipes in the form of an inverted pyramid, giving very deep notes somewhat like those of a stopped diapason.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
