organ point
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“Audium” and “The Wave Organ” point to two issues facing the medium.
From New York Times
Some organists love to put a modern organ through its tricks; others sigh for the good old days when an organ was just an organ, point nostalgically to the fact that 18th-Century organs had purer tones, breathed gently instead of booming and gurgling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Breathed softly at first, as from afar, it is repeated after a rapid crescendo with the whole weight of the orchestra, to melt away again on an organ point in more subdued tone-color.
From Project Gutenberg
The rosy lightning flashed almost incessantly, and through the fitful darkness came the sound of bells across the valley, the rushing torrent below, and the dull roar of the approaching rain, with a deep organ point of solemn thunder through it all.
From Project Gutenberg
As I stated the structure and function of an organ point to its possible maladies.
From Project Gutenberg
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