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The organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality
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dulciana
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dulciana \Dul`ci*an"a\, n. [NL., fr. L. dulcis sweet.] (Mus.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) An organ stop with a sweet tone.
Usage examples of dulciana.
The great organ has double open diapason (stopped bass), open diapason, dulciana, viola di gambi, doppel flute, hohl flute, octave, octave quint, superoctave, and trumpet,--65 pipes each.
The plaza beneath his room was crowded with shouting donkey-drivers and visited frequently by a dulciana, whose "shrill notes, continually playing an air from Traviata and one Spanish melody, and nothing else, drive me almost mad.