Definition of Organ stop

1. Noun. A graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality.


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

organ of hearing
organ of smell
organ of state
organ of taste
organ of touch
organ of vision
organ of zuckerkandl
organ pipe
organ pipe cacti
organ pipe cactus
organ pipe cactuses
organ pipes
organ preservation solutions
organ procurement
organ specificity
organ stop (current term)
organ stops
organ tablature
organ transplant
organ transplantation
organ transplants
organa
organa oculi accessoria
organa sensuum
organa urinaria

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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