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Tone :: Tone (n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones..

Violoncello :: Violoncello (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin..

Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.

Basset Horn :: Basset horn (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves..

Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival..

Principal :: Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason..

Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones..

Eleventh :: Eleventh (n.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenienc

Tridiapason :: Tridiapason (n.) A triple octave, or twenty-second..

Contrafagetto :: Contrafagetto (n.) The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon..

Diapason :: Diapason (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale..

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.

Sonnet :: Sonnet (n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule..

Octave :: Octave (a.) Consisting of eight; eight.

Semidiapason :: Semidiapason (n.) An imperfect octave.

Utas :: Utas (n.) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael..

Overblow :: Overblow (v. i.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing..

Eleventh :: Eleventh (a.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.

Archilute :: Archilute (n.) A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison..

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