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‖ rohrflöte Mus.|ˈroːrfløːtə| Also rohr flute; pl. -n. [G., f. rohr tube + flöte flue-stop.] An organ stop having its pipes partly closed, the stopper at the top of each pipe being pierced by a thin tube.
1773C. Burney Present State of Mus. Germany II. 305 Catalogue of stops in the Great Organ at Haarlem built by Müller 1738... 5. Roer fluit, 8 ft. with a funnel or small pipe upon the top. Eng. equivalent, Diap. half stopt. 1855[see gedackt, gedact]. 1898Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 387/2 Rohrflöte, (Ger.) Reed-flute. An organ stop consisting of closed pipes, the tone of which is slightly reedy in quality, but very sweet. 1911W. & T. Lewis Mod. Organ Building v. 93 Many stops..occupy an intermediate position between two classes; as, for instance, a Rohr Flute. This stop is made to produce an upper harmonic which renders its timbre rather flutey in character, but at the same time, the fundamental tone is sufficiently obvious to link it with a Stopped Diapason. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 668/1 Rohrflöte or Rohr Flute (literally ‘Reed Flute’, but ‘reed’ here means a tube), of metal stopped pipes, with a slender tube through the stopper (hence the name). 1959Collins Mus. Encycl. 554/1 Rohrflöte,..an organ stop of the flue type. The pipe is stopped at one end, but the stopper is pierced by a hole, in which is inserted a metal tube or chimney. 1966P. Williams European Organ 1450–1850 vii. 238 Organ-builders evidently brought with them new stops like Rohrflöten. |