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DIAPASON

Volume 17 · 64 words · 1810 Edition

in Music, a musical interval, by which most authors who have wrote on the theory of music use to express the octave of the Greeks.

among the musical instrument makers, a kind of rule or scale whereby they adjust the pipes of their organs, and cut the holes of their hautboys, flutes, &c., in due proportion for performing the tones, semitones, and concords, just.