open diapason
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of open diapason
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Their stop is the open diapason, and their harmony is the harmony of large intervals and full chords.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh
Montre, mon′tėr, n. a flue-stop the pipes of which show from without, usually the open diapason of the great organ: an opening in a kiln wall.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
As he passed the tower, he heard the deep notes of a pipe organ; the open diapason and flutes of the great, the reeds of the swell, piled one upon another in a splendid harmony.
From The Mayor of Warwick by Hopkins, Herbert M. (Herbert Müller)
Wald flute, fifteenth stopped flute, oboe flute, principal, stopped diapason, hohl flute, cornopean, and open diapason, making together 486 pipes.
From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.
They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
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