A note 22 diatonic degrees distant from a given note, or the interval between two such notes (equal to three octaves); hence, an organ stop formerly…

Any of various types of organ stop having an 8-foot pitch and producing a tone supposedly suggestive of the human voice, esp. its thin, undulating…

A group of organ pipes or stops designed to be played together; a compound stop (see compound, adj. 2f); also, the sound so produced.

Music. An organ stop sounding a tenth above the normal or 8-feet pitch; also called double-tierce or great-tierce.

(See quots.)

(a) in an organ, a stop of the same pitch as the diapasons; (b) in a harpsichord, the second foundation register.

An organ stop having pipes that form part of the visible case of the instrument; esp. the open diapason of the great organ.

A pedal organ stop consisting of wooden pipes in the shape of an inverted pyramid.

Acoustics and Music. Applied to the tones produced by the vibration of a sonorous body in aliquot parts of its length (see sense B. 2); relating to…

An organ stop designed to produce an imitation of the noise of a tempest. Obsolete. rare.

Music. A type of organ stop; = flue-stop n. at flue, n.3 compounds 2. Cf. reed stop n. at reed, n.1 compounds 2.