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What is a diapason?

What is a diapason? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) The musical octave.
  2. (literary) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.
  3. (music) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.
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They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason.
They were the diapason of all the thought and feeling of that profound and passionate spirit.
Then come the noisy nuisances, extending through all the diapason of sound.
The dimensions of these pipes are regulated by a diapason, or scale.
Most organs have a Dulciana stop in the treble which corresponds with the diapason in the bass.
Their stop is the open diapason, and their harmony is the harmony of large intervals and full chords.

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