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What (who) is diapason$21010$ - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Diapasons; Diapason (disambiguation)
Diapason
·noun The entire compass of tones.
II. Diapason ·noun Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.
III. Diapason ·noun A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.
IV. Diapason ·noun The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.
V. Diapason ·noun One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.
diapason
[?d???'pe?s(?)n, -z-]
¦ noun
1. (also open diapason or stopped diapason) an organ stop sounding a main register of flue pipes, typically of eight-foot pitch.
2. a grand swelling burst of harmony.
Origin
ME (denoting the interval of an octave): via L. from Gk dia pason (khordon) 'through all (notes)'.
Flue pipe
TYPE OF ORGAN PIPE
String stop; Open diapason; Diapason (pipe organ); Flue pipes; Flue (instrument); String (pipe organ); Labial pipe; String pipe; Principal pipe; Flute pipe
·add. ·- A pipe, ·esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air upon an edge, or lip, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe;
- distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue pipes, those of metal being usually round in section, and those of wood triangular or square.
Wikipedia
Diapason
Diapason may refer to:
- Diapason (interval), the name of the just octave in Pythagorean tuning
- Diapason (pipe organ), a tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ
- Diapason (magazine), a French classical music magazine
- The Diapason (magazine), an American magazine for organ builders and players
- Diapason normal, the official French standard of concert pitch
- Diapason, a 1978 novel by Thomas Sullivan
