stopped diapason

American  

noun

1. diapason4

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Etymology

Origin of stopped diapason

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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

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.

The stops in the great organ are, the stopped diapason, two open diapasons, flute, and principal, trumpet and baffoon, all entire, the 12th, 15th, sesqui-altera, cornet and clarion. 

From A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers by Watts, Susannah

Hautbois, trumpet, horn, fifteenth, sesquialtra, principal, stopped diapason, open diapason, clarion, and boureon and dulciana, the whole requiring 702 pipes.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.

Pyramidon, pi-ram′i-don, n. in organ-building a stop having wooden pipes in the form of an inverted pyramid, giving very deep notes somewhat like those of a stopped diapason.

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