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stopped diapason
Diapason Di`a*pa"son, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? (i. e., ? ? ? the concord of the first and last notes, the octave); dia` through + ?, gen. pl. of ? all: cf. F. diapason. Cf. Panacea.] 1. (Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. 2. Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. --Milton. 3. The entire compass of tones. Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. --Dryden. 4. A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason. 5. One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.

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- Bordun) Subb**** (or Soub****e) Stopped Diapason (or Stopped Flute) — despite its name, the Stopped Diapason is a flute-class stop Flûte Harmonique (or Harmonic...
- commonly "chimney flute" in English) is a stopped flute rank with a small pipe or chimney built into the cap. Diapasons or prin****ls represent the characteristic...
- made for, among others, a Stentor division, a section of high-pressure diapasons and reeds. It was to be installed on the fifth floor, above the String...
- gallery of the cathedral, it comprises 81 speaking stops spread over four manuals and pedals. Some of the stops can be dated to 1880 or 1896, when the instrument...
- comp****: 61 notes Pedal comp****: 32 notes Key-action: electro-pneumatic Stop-action: electric 16 general combinations, with 96 levels of memory 8 combinations...
- An organ stop can be one of three things: the control on an organ console that selects a particular sound the row of organ pipes used to create a particular...
- one of only two full-length 64′ organ stops in the world (the Contra-Trombone in the pedal). The other 64′ stop is the Diaphone-Dulzian in the Right Stage...
- 1855 he built small instruments with mechanical keyaction and mechanical stop action.  During the Votteler-Hettche years, robust mechanical actions were...
- playable organ in England. The organ has four ranks of oak pipes (Stopped Diapason 8, Prin****l 4, Twelfth 22/3 and Fifteenth 2) contained in a rectangular...
- slider soundboards and actions and painted the front pipes. The organ has 57 stops/68 ranks and 3,789 speaking pipes on four manuals and pedal. The stoplist...