stop, open unison

See open diapason stop, board. nary pitch of the corresponding keystop, ophicleide stop, twelfth octave An organ stop producing a tone like An organ stop, each of whose pipes the ophicleide, powerful but harsh, produces a tone the interval of an stop, organ octave and a twelfth, or two octaves See organ stop, and a fifth, above the ordinary pitch stop, percu ion of the corresponding key of the key- In a reed organ, a stop-knob con board. trol ing a device which strikes a reed Lat. sharply and at the very instant it is stop, vox-human a (voks-hu-ma'-na) sounded, causing it to vibrate prompt- Literally, human voice: a group of ly and with unusual force. 6top, reed pipes in the organ which are fitted with reeds and produce a tone re- Any stop in the organ which com sembling the human voice, prises only pipes fitted with reeds, stopfen (shtop'-fen) Ger. v. that is, thin strips of bra which vibrate and produce the sound, To s.top; to fill or stuff: hence, to stop, salicional modify the vibrating tone of a bra instrument, as the horn or trumpet, An organ stop composed of narby inserting the hand in the bell, 518 499 stopped street-organ stopped Strap pare (strap-pa'-re) It. v. Closed with a stopper: a term ap- Literally, to pluck off: in piano plied to certain pipes of the organ technic, to throw off a note or chord whose pitch may be lowered or raised by a rapid, light turn of the wrist, by means of the stopper. strascinando (str a-shi-nan'-do) It. adj. stopped diapason Dragging; drawling; playing slowly. A group of wooden pipes stopped lar'-ko) It.l'arco (str a-shi-nan'-do strascinando at the upper end with plugs. They command the entire compa of the Dragging the bow; drawing the bow keyboard to which they belong. Their close to the strings in such a manner tone is softer and more mellow than as to slur the tones. open diapason. Abbr. St. D., St. Diap. str a sci nato (str a-shi-na'-to) It. adj. stopped notes Dragged along; moving with diff i- In music for the violin and other culty; retarded; rendered slowly. similar instruments, notes that are strascino (str a-she'-no) It. n. produced while the string is pre ed A drag; a slur; a binding of tones with the finger. in which the time is dragged or res topped unison tarded. strathspey See stopped diapason, stopples A noted Scotch dance which takes Plugs which are inserted in some its name from strath, valley, and the of the finger holes of the flute and River Spey, in the northern part of flageolet when a selection is to be Scotland, where the dance originated. played which is written in a peculiar The terms strathspey and reel have mode not requiring the entire number been used interchangeably and yet of holes, there is a distinction between them. storta (stor'-ta) It. n. Although both are written in four- See serpent, four time, the reel is slower in moves tort in a (stor-te'-na) It. n. ment and le jerky in style. The A small serpent. See also serpent. strathspey calls upon the dancers for Sto zeichen (shtos'-tsi-khen) Ger. n. violent and vigorous _ exercise; the A staccato mark: a musical sign fiddler many times giving an emplaced over a note or chord, to ind i phatic scrape of the bow, or even a cate that it is cut short or detached shout, to urge on the performers. from the following note or chord, The music of the reel shows the