dulcet, dulceth

& s. [O. Fr. * dolcet, doucet, from O. Fr. dulce, dolce, with suff. -et; Lat. dulcis sweet.] IMG:content-0626.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0627.png:[blocks in formation] 'A uage their dulcetne ."- Bradford: Works, i. 338. dul-çi-ạn, dul-çi-nô, s. [Ital.] Music: The name of a species of small ba oon. dul-çi-a-na, s. [Ital.] Music: A word now applied solely to a soft and delicate-toned organ stop consisting of very small scale flue pipes. Originally, a dulciana (dulcan, dulcian, dolcan, dolcin, or dulzain) was a kind of hautboy, and these terms are still found on some foreign stops as the names of soft reed stops, as at Rotter dam, The Hague, and elsewhere, but in some cases the stop is not actually reed, but the pipes by their peculiar shape, narrow at the mouth, and widening gradually toward the top, produce a reedy quality of tone. The dulciana stop was invented by the celebrated organ-builder Snetzler. Stops of this kind are most commonly found on the choir organ. ( Stainer & Barrett .)