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Definition of Organ stop
1. Noun. A graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality.
Generic synonyms: Organ Pipe, Pipe, Pipework
Definition of Organ stop
1. Noun. any of many knobs near the keyboard of an organ used to select different sounds or timbres ¹
2. Noun. the timbre so produced ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Organ Stop
Literary usage of Organ stop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"An organ-stop, resembling in tone a flute, or flageolet. Stops, foundation.
The diapasons and principal, to which the other stops, be they few or many, ..."
2. The Story of the Organ by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"... of unequal temperament in England—Sketch of the history of equal temperament—Competition
between Neidhardt and Bach in tuning an organ-stop— Anecdote of ..."
3. Organ-stops and Their Artistic Registration: Names, Forms, Construction by George Ashdown Audsley (1921)
"Under any conditions, the name of a town must be inappropriate for an organ-stop,
although not more so than the name of a person written backwards, ..."
4. Adams' New Musical Dictionary of Fifteen Thousand Technical Words, Phrases by John Stowell Adams (1865)
"An organ stop, the scale of which is an octave above the twelfth. ... An organ
stop tuned я major tbird higher than the fifteenth, and only employed in the ..."
5. Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by William Smythe Babcock Mathews, Emil Liebling (1896)
"An organ-stop of small 16- feet scale and delicate tone. ... An organ-stop tuned
a tenth above the diapasons, or a major third above the octave. ..."
6. Elson's Pocket Music Dictionary: The Important Terms Used in Music with by Louis Charles Elson (1909)
"Jan organ-stop sounding a fifth (or twelfth) above the foundation stops. ...
A manual organ- stop of eight-foot tone; a stopped diapason of rather small ..."
7. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
".Halb'prinzipal, an organ-stop of 4-foot pitch (disused). ... an organ-stop having
pipes double the ordinary length, and pierced midway, so that a i6-foot ..."
8. The Organ in France: A Study of Its Mechanical Construction, Tonal by Wallace Goodrich (1917)
"An organ stop of 8-ft. Viole de gambe n. /. pitch and soft string quality.
The orchestral instrument' from which the stop derives its name is now obsolete, ..."
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