unda marisn.
/ˈʌndə ˈmɑːrɪs/ Music.
A variety of organ pipe (normally flute-toned) typically consisting of two ranks of pipes, one of which is tuned slightly sharp or flat, which together produce a slowly undulating tone. Cf. voix céleste at voix n.
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1828 E. Holmes Ramble among Musicians Germany 195 The organ in the Royal Catholic Church has 47 stops..(Upper Row) 1. Principal..2. Quintatön..3. Unda Maris... This organ, Silbermann's masterpiece, was completed and erected in the year 1754.
1881 C. A. Edwards Organs & Organ-Building xxii. 158 The Germans have a stop of this character called Unda Maris, which is sometimes described as identical with the Voix Celeste; but, as a rule, the former is of louder pipes, and the second rank is tuned sharper, so that the waves caused by their inequality of pitch are more marked.
1914 G. A. Audsley Art of Organ-Building I. xiii. 569 When the so-called Unda Maris is in its best form, it produces slow undulating beats that may be counted.
1957 J. E. Blanton Organ in Church Design i. 43 Strictly speaking, any stop which possesses two or more ranks of pipes is a compound stop. Thus, if the two ranks of the Unda Maris and Celeste stops cannot be drawn independently, they should be included.
1989 Organists' Rev. Dec. 241/2 At the turn of the century, in the quest for tonal variety, the flute-toned Unda Maris was re-introduced.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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