Stira’to (It.)

Dragging, % retarding the tempo. stock (Ger.) Bundle of 30 strings. stéck’chen des Hal’ses (Ger.) ‘‘Heel” of violin, etc, tock’fagott (Ger.) Same as Rackets, +» Stock flte, samé as Csakan. tol’len (Ger.) See Strophe. tonan’te (It.) Di onant. tone-harmonicon. See Lapidcon, top (noun). x. (Ger, Regis/tersug; Fr. registre; It. regt’stro.) That part of the organ-mechanism controlling the admi ion of wind to the grooves beneath the pipes—2. (Ger. Regis’ter; Fr, jeu dorgue(s), It. reg i’stro.) A set or row of organ-pipes of like character, arranged in graduated succe ion. These are called speaking or sound in, stops; they are cla ed as Flue work (having flue-pipes), and Reed-work, (having reed-pipes); the flue-work has 3 subcla es, namely (a) Principal. work, having cylindrical flue-pipes of diapason-quality, i. e. the characteristic organ-tone o Gedackt-work, having covered (stopped or lugged) ipes; and (c) Pia vork. totes ling al ues 188 STOP—S stops having flue-pipes of a scale too broad or too narrow to produce the diapason-tone, together with such stopped pipes as have chimneys, and all 3or 4-sided wooden pipes... Complete stop, one having at least one pipe for each key of the keyboard to which it belongs. Cont pied see Mixture. stop...Divided stop, one in which the lower half of its register is controlled by a different stop-knob from the upper, ‘and generally bears a different name... Flue-stop, one composed of Sue pipes... Foundation-stop, one of normal 8-foot pitch... Half-stop, incomplete or imperfect ee one producing (approx i‘mately) half the tones called for by the full scale of its manual... Mechanical stop, one not having a set of pi . but governing some mechanical device; such are the couplers, tremulant, bell signal, and the like... Mixture-stop, one with 2 or more ranks of pipes, thus roducing more than one tone for each Fey (as the Mixture, Carillon, Cornet, Cymbal)... Mutation-stop, one producing tones a major 3rd or perfect sth (or a higher octave of either) above the 8 stops (as the Tierce, Twelfth, Quint)...Partial stop, see Half-stop...Pedal-stop, a stop on the pedal... Reed-stop, one composed of reed:pipes. «. Solo-stop, any organ-stop adapted for the production of characteristic melodic effects, whether on the solo organ or not... Sounding or speaking stop, a stop proper, having pipes and producing musical tones.—3.*On a violin, etc., pre ure of a finger on as string, to vary its pitch; a doublecstop in whed a more strings are so pre ed and sounded simultaneously;—on _wind-instr.s with finger-holes, the closing of a hole by the finger or a key, to alter the pitch j—on wind-instr.s of the trumpet family, the partial closing of the bell by inserting the hand, thus raising the pits and modifying the quality of the tone. Stop (verd), To vary the pitch of instr.s ‘as described under Stop 3 above... ‘Stopped notes, notes obtained by stopping; opp. to open ban pas pipes. ‘organ-pipes closed (plugged or covered at the top; opp. to open.