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Definition of Pitch pipe
1. Noun. A small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency; used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing.
Definition of Pitch pipe
1. Noun. A device much like a harmonica, used to supply a sought pitch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitch Pipe
Literary usage of Pitch pipe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1830)
"... are the lengths of the pitch-pipe in unison with the note produced by the
apparatus, when the extremity of the pipe reaches their respective feet*. ..."
2. Public School Methods (1921)
"Use of pitch pipe. Never trust to your own voice or that of a pupil to pitch the
songs or exercises; always use the pitch pipe. Use it at the beginning to ..."
3. History of Church Music in America: Treating of Its Peculiarities at by Nathaniel D Gould (1853)
"Puritan Fathers rejected Instruments. — Boss-viols introduced in Billings'
day.— Jinan Voice uncertain in Giving the Pitch of a Tune.—Pitch-pipe the ..."
4. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"Line 2 gives the cents observed on a pitch- pipe of 1730 belonging to the ...
Line 3 gives those observed on another pitch-pipe of 1780, belonging to the ..."
5. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"Professor Wood proposes to attach a pitch pipe to the tip of a hollow bamboo rod
and a rubber hose to the hand end of the rod so that by this means the pipe ..."
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