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Definition of Diapasons
1. diapason [n] - See also: diapason
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diapasons
Literary usage of Diapasons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But it appears better that, where two open diapasons are desirable, ... The admixture
of stringy qualities of tone with the diapasons is always to be ..."
2. The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review by Richard Mackenzie Bacon (1820)
"The stops in common use are named as follows:—The stopped and open diapasons,
which are the foundation of the organ; the principal and stopped flute, ..."
3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1865)
"The thin, piercing, reedy tone of the diapasons in the instruments at Belfast,
in the nave of York minster, and in the organ just placed in S. Patrick's, ..."
4. Organ Registration: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Distinctive Quality of by Everett Ellsworth Truette (1919)
"diapasons of this character are found in the Gt. (named " Second Diapason " when
there are two diapasons in the ..."
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