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mutation stop

British

noun

an organ pipe sounding the harmonic of the note normally produced

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mutation stop

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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