diapasons

And I'm not sure, I think they're called diapasons or something like that.

Wry Martinis 1997

Tous ces diapasons différens réunis forment une étendue générale d'à-peu-près trois octaves qu'on a divisées en quatre parties, dont trois appellées haute-contre, taille & basse appartiennent aux voix masculines, & la quatrieme seulement qu'on appelle dessus est assignée aux voix aiguës, sur quoi se trouvent plusieurs remarques à faire.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! Celeste Winant 2008

Philadelphia If you were asked to name the location of the world's largest pipe organ, dollars to diapasons your logical answer would be a great cathedral -- London's St. Paul's, perhaps, or Nôtre Dame de Paris -- or possibly even the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.

A Cathedral of Commerce's Crowning Glory 2008

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.

The Metal Monster 2004

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.

She and I, Volume 1

Little of the original work remains, with the exception of some of the diapasons, the principal, and the tin pipes in the choir front.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire

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.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Various

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.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Another broke away from the harsh notes around in soft diapasons, and with a mellifluous _soprano_ which I instinctively knew must belong to a throat that could sing.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

He listened to those diapasons and thin trebles and was strangely soothed.

Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926