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Definition of Backfalls
1. backfall [n] - See also: backfall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backfalls
Literary usage of Backfalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"An octave coupler consists of a set of diagonal backfalls, which extend sufficiently
to the right to reach from any given key to the tracker of its octave. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"A sub-octave coupler has a set of diagonal backfalls acting on the octave below.
When not required to be used, the draw- stop is 'put in,' which raises the ..."
3. Practical Organ-building by William Edward Dickson (1882)
"Hence the backfalls will be turned towards the player, as in Figs. 32 and 34.
But all that we shall say will be applicable to ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"10) is a set of backfalls having one set of ends close together, ... That now
used consista of a series of backfalls centred on & movable support. ..."
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