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An open organ stop with a soft string-like tone, typically 8-foot and having small, conical, metal pipes. Cf. dulciana principal, n., octave dulciana…
Music. An organ stop resembling the dulciana, but an octave higher in pitch; = dulciana principal, n.
A kind of organ stop (see quots.).