Open diapason

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(Mus.)

a certain stop in an organ, in which the pipes or tubes are formed like the mouthpiece of a flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open at the other end.

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I then gave Lys a piece of dried meat, and sitting inside the entrance, we dined as must have some of our ancient forbears at the dawning of the age of man, while far below the open diapason of the savage night rose weird and horrifying to our ears.

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Initiated in low and subdued tones, the sound soon rose in volume to the open diapason of barbaric blood lust.

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