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mutation stop

British  

noun

  1. an organ pipe sounding the harmonic of the note normally produced

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Quintadena, kwin-ta-dē′na, n. in organ-building, a mutation stop yielding a tone one-twelfth above the digital struck.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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