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

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

Exhibitions were given, the organ of critical praise swelled in diapason.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had never been near the sea, so the thrilling diapason of the moving waters was full of terrors.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)