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Quintade
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quintade
English
Noun
An organ stop corresponding to pewter pipes of 16, 8, 4, and 2 feet.
en 1930 The contemporary american organ William Harrison Barnes 312 Substituting a Dolce for the Quintade for church use would make this little organ far more useful than some much larger baroque organs that I have played.
en 2011 Recent Organ Design Innovations and the 21st-century “Hyperorgan” Randall Harlow The Flute and Principal jump an octave at high pressures, while the Quintade can be heard at the 8’ fundamental using low pressure on the cone-pallet box and can then overblow to the tierce at 90 mm WC.
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