rauschpfeifen.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 374/2 Rauschpfeif [sic],..a stop in old organs of two ranks of pipes, consisting of a twelfth and fifteenth, or a fifteenth and octave twelfth.

1921 G. A. Audsley Organ-stops 222 A Rauschpfeife of three ranks..was inserted in the Brustwerk of the Organ built by Hildebrand, in 1762, for St. Michaeliskirche, Hamburg.

1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments 436/1 Rauschpfeife,..2..organ stop first mentioned by Arnold Schlick in 1511. It seems to have consisted originally of reed pipes with conical resonators; it became transformed in the course of the c. to a 2-rank stop of flue pipes. Since the mid-17th c. the stop was treated as a mixture, often 3-rank... In the 18th c. it was enlarged further... The original meaning of the word had long been forgotten: to Praetorius already it was a ‘rustling’ pipe (from [G.] rauschen, to rustle).

1986 D. M. Randel New Harvard Dict. Music Rauschpfeife,..a low-pitched mixture stop in the organ, usually of two or three ranks, beginning at 2 2/3' pitch in an 8' division and at 5 1/3' in a 16' division.

1937 F. W. Galpin Textbk. European Mus. Instruments 192 The Cornamuse, Rauschpfeife, and Bassanelli, with straight tubes throughout and yet softer tone [than the Krumhorn].

1939 A. Carse Mus. Wind Instruments xi. 128 Two instruments of the shawm type figure in one of Burgkmair's famous series of woodcuts ‘Kayser Maximilians I Triumph’ (c. 1516) and are there named rauschpfeiffen.]

1977 Early Music 5 437/1 The Early Music Consort of Melbourne (medieval harp, saz, lute, rauschpfeife, [etc.]).

2002 D. Leech-Wilkinson Mod. Invention Medieval Music 279 A..performance recorded in 1967 by the New York Pro Musica that used recorder, viols, rauschpfeife, and an array of percussion.