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noun

Diapason n.

(Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. Compare disdiapason.

Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. "The fair music that all creatures made... In perfect diapason."

The entire compass of tones; the entire compass of tones of a voice or an instrument. "Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man."

A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.

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.

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... in his grandest diapason). Excuse me: I claim that privilege as counsel's fee. May I have the honor—-thank you. (He dances away with Gloria and disappears among the lanterns, leaving ...

— You Never Can Tell • [George] Bernard Shaw

... passion of love; those mills on the far-off rivers, whose creaking machinery and revolving wheels are the prelude of a yet unborn, but rapidly approaching civility, and whose music, heard by the right ears, is of the divinest depth and diapason, and in full concord with the immeasurable orchestra of triumph and rejoicing which the nation celebrates in the perpetual ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, October, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... and paused from time to time, the tumult of the storm without, and the fury with which it swept against the roof, door, and windows of the house, made a terrible diapason to the sweet and affecting tone of feeling which pervaded the remarks of the dying boy. His father, however, who felt an irrepressible dread of what was expected to take place, started at the close of the last words, and with a heart divided between the two terrors, stood in that stupefaction ...

— Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

... thundering heavens sounded louder than the heavy torrent tumbling into the dark. But here, in my yawl on the sea, was more splendid than these. Imagination painted its own free picture on a black and boundless background of mind strung tight by near danger; and from out this spoke the deep loud diapason, while the quick flashing at intervals gave point to all. Then that glorious anthem came to my memory, where these words of the ...

— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

... can speak with its many and wonderful voices!— Play on the soft lute of love, blow the loud trumpet of war, Sing with the high sesquialtro, or, drawing its full diapason, Shake all the air with the grand storm ...

— Practice Book • Leland Powers

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