And I'm not sure, I think they're called diapasons or something like that. From Wordnik.com. [Wry Martinis] Reference
During the night the rainstorm grew to a gale which rocked our night's home like a ship at sea to the music of heaven's grand diapasons. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
After awhile Dr.F. succeeded in putting matters a little to rights and, seated at the key-boards, proceeded to play upon the diapasons, the tone of which he had so extolled. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference
I was listening to the varied fugue introitus that the organist was playing from the gallery beyond the pulpit, -- playing with the full wind power of the venerable reed instrument he skilfully manipulated, having all the stops out, -- diapasons, trumpet, vox humana, and the rest. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
Throbbing bass viols of roaring vernal winds, diapasons of waterfall and torrents — these had been flames of emerald; flaming trumpetings of desire that had been great streamers of scarlet — rose flames that had dissolved into echoes of fulfillment; diamond burgeonings that melted into silver symphonies like mist entangled Pleiades transmuted into melodies; chameleon harmonies to which the strange suns danced. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
In the ch. organ, are two diapasons and principal. From Wordnik.com. [A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers] Reference
In the swell two diapasons, principal, hautboy and trumpet. From Wordnik.com. [A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers] Reference
He listened to those diapasons and thin trebles and was strangely soothed. From Wordnik.com. [Burned Bridges] Reference
For the window of reminders you can choose any of colour diapasons & musical background. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
And I love the instrument by which all the diapasons of the ocean are caught and released in surging floods -- the many-voiced organ. From Wordnik.com. [The World I Live In] Reference
Germans, who made discussion unpleasant by their acrid, dictatorial manners and drowning diapasons, that their arrogance had so rapidly grown out of bounds. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
It may not be worthy of Lord Byron's genius, but it does him no dishonour, and contains passages which accord with the solemn diapasons of ancient devotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Lord Byron]
My feeling for religious music was then, as since, very deep; and the organ of Trinity gave satisfaction to this feeling; the tremulous ground-tone of the great pedal diapasons thrilling me through and through. From Wordnik.com. [[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White] Reference
Around are all the common farm-house sounds, -- the poultry making a pleasant recitative between the carols of singing birds; even geese and turkeys are not inharmonious when modulated by the diapasons of the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II] Reference
There is a certain music, we do not deny, in Macaulay, but it is the music of a man everlastingly playing for us rapid solos on a silver trumpet, never the swelling diapasons of the organ, and never the deep ecstasies of the four magic strings. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay] Reference
For the long strain was on the country; underneath all its outward seeming of things going on as usual there shook a deep vibration, like the air trembling to vast organ pipes in diapasons too profound to reach the ear as sound: one felt, not heard, thunder in the ground under one's feet. From Wordnik.com. [Ramsey Milholland] Reference
On Lamprecht's method, we may be able to assign the conditions which limit the psychical activity of men at a particular stage of evolution, but within those limits the individual has so many options, such a wide room for moving, that the definition of those conditions, the "psychical diapasons," is only part of the explanation of the particular development. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
Doubtless thinking also of a style of organ performance which plays Schumann's Traeumerei on the great organ diapasons, he said it made him think of a hippopotamus wearing a clover leaf in his mouth.”. From Wordnik.com. [Edward MacDowell]
(essentially psychical), on which Lamprecht's "psychical diapasons" depend, is the most valuable and fertile conception that the historian owes to the suggestion of the science of biology -- the conception of all particular historical actions and movements as (1) related to and conditioned by the social environment, and (2) gradually bringing about a transformation of that environment. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
Smith grasped the extended hand, and Oliver started off at once, making his way cautiously to the edge of the river, and then, as a boy might along the kerbstone of a street, he kept on passing his right foot along, till at last they stood in the profound darkness, listening to the thundering echoing roar of the falling water reverberating from the hollow roof and rising and sinking in booming deep diapasons till there were moments when it seemed to their stunned ears like a burst of strange wild giant music. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track] Reference
Around are all the common farm-house sounds, ” the poultry making a pleasant recitative between the carols of singing birds; even geese and turkeys are not inharmonious when modulated by the diapasons of the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli]
Nor what your diapasons are. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
To diapasons worthy of the theme. From Wordnik.com. [Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics] Reference
My music has some mystic diapasons. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
What mighty diapasons like the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Let organ diapasons tell. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Poets] Reference
And mournful diapasons sail. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas] Reference
Swell, two diapasons, principal, cornet, hautboy, trumpet. From Wordnik.com. [A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers] Reference
Choir organ, two diapasons, principal, 15th, flute, bassoon. From Wordnik.com. [A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers] Reference
The stops in the great organ are, the stopped diapason, two open diapasons, flute, and principal, trumpet and baffoon, all entire, the 12th, 15th, sesqui-altera, cornet and clarion. From Wordnik.com. [A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers] Reference
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