counter-diapasonn.
Music.
An organ stop an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary diapason.
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1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 94 Large organs have sometimes, in the great organ, both a diapason eight feet and one sixteen feet, the latter being then called double-diapason, or counter-diapason.
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