In a pipe organ: an old reed stop made with various patterns of resonator which qualify the tone but do not noticeably control the pitch. Also…

An obsolete musical instrument, a kind of bassoon; also an organ stop of similar quality of tone; also double curtal.

Something of the nature of or resembling a trumpet. A reed-stop on the organ, of powerful tone resembling that of a trumpet.

An organ reed-stop of 8-foot tone.

A reed-stop on an organ; = krummhorn, n., cremona, n.2

A reed-stop on an organ: = oboe, n.1 2.

An 8-foot reed-stop on an organ.

A bass wind instrument of deep tone, about 8 feet long, made of wood covered with leather and formed with three U-shaped turns. (The instrument…

Either of two different types of organ stop; spec. (a) a soft flue stop; = dulciana, n. (now rare); (b) a soft reed stop of 8' or 16' tone…

An organ reed stop resembling a muted trumpet in tone.

(in sense 2a.)

An organ stop consisting of reed pipes with conical resonators, used in French organs of the 17th and 18th centuries.

An organ stop having a tone resembling that of the bassoon. Cf. bassoon, n. 2a.

An organ reed stop imitating the oboe's penetrating tone; = hautboy, n. 1c.

Music. A reed-stop in the organ of similar tone.

An early form of harmonium, in which metal springs are set in vibration by a current of air. Also: a kind of reed stop on the organ, imitating the…

An 8-ft. reed-stop on an organ.

A powerful reed stop on the organ, a variety of the tuba.

An organ reed stop resembling a trombone in tone.

an organ reed stop consisting of a short, narrow cylinder topped with a hollow, perforated, ball-shaped knob, used in German organs of the 18th cent.

transferred. An organ stop resembling the shawm in quality of sound.

Any of various types of organ stop producing a tone supposedly suggestive of the voices of angels; esp. one having an 8-foot pitch and two pipes…

= posaune, n. 2. Obsolete.

A brass instrument of the trumpet-kind, in tone resembling an ophicleide; also a bass reed-stop on the organ.

Music. An 8-foot high-pressure reed-stop in an organ.

A foot reed-stop of an organ.

An organ stop of a quality of tone like that of this instrument; = cremona, n.2

Originally and usually rankett. An organ stop of the regal type, with short resonators and a soft tone, originally popular in the 16th cent., but…

A reed-stop in an organ, resembling the oboe stop, but not extending below tenor C. Also applied to any stop not extending below tenor C; also attrib…

= clarinet, n. 2.

An organ reed-stop of 8 ft. pitch, resembling the clarinet in tone; called also cromorne, n., and corruptly cremona, n.2