Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Prestant Dutch Principaal Dutch Principal English Principale Italian Prinzipal German	Diapason English Open Diapason English Montre French Flautado Spanish Flautado Principal Spanish
Devanture French Dulceon Czech Frontispicium Latin Fundamentalis Latin? Jeu en Montre French Monster French	Mostra French Parade French? Tenori Italian Regula Latin Primaria Regula Latin Regula Primaria Latin

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The quintessential tone of the pipe organ.

Compare with Flautada.

Construction

Open cylindrical metal, or open rectangular wood. The illustration is Audsley's.

Variants

'Cello Diapason
Diapason Magna
Diapason Phonon
Diapason Sonora
Diaphonic Diapason
Diskant Prinzipal
Double Diapason
Early English Diapason

English Diapason
Fifteenth
Groben Principal
Italian Principal
Magnaton
Major Principal
Octave
Prinzipalbass
Prinzipaldiskant

Quint Diapason
Salicional Diapason
Schönprinzipal
Small Open Diapason
Solo Diapason
Solo Prinzipal-Flöte
Unterchormassbass
Wood Diapason

Examples

Every pipe organ worthy of the name contains at least one. No examples are known of the names Devanture, Frontispicium, Fundamentalis, Jeu en Montre, Monster, Mostra, Parade, Tenori, Regula, Primaria Regula, or Regula Primaria.

Pictures

Audsley2 II.442, 446;

Sound Clips

See the Sound Files appendix for general information.

Manual Diapasons
Principal 8', Hauptwerk	Reinhardtsgrimma, Sachsen, Germany	Silbermann, 1731	arpeggio	St. Anne
Montre 8', Grand Orgue	St. Bernhard, Mainz, Germany	Cavaillé-Coll, 1872-1892	arpeggio	St. Anne
Open Diapason small 8', Great	St. Anne's Church, Moseley, Birmingham, England	Lewis, 1875	arpeggio	St. Anne
Open Diapason large 8', Great	St. Anne's Church, Moseley, Birmingham, England	Brindley & Foster 1907	arpeggio	St. Anne
First Diapason 8', Great	Kellogg Auditorium, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA	Aeolian-Skinner, 1933		St. Anne
Second Diapason 8', Great	Kellogg Auditorium, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA	Aeolian-Skinner, 1933		St. Anne
Third Diapason 8', Great	Kellogg Auditorium, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA	Aeolian-Skinner, 1933		St. Anne
Diapason 16', Great	Kellogg Auditorium, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA	Aeolian-Skinner, 1933		St. Anne (8va)
Diapason 8', Swell	Kellogg Auditorium, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA	Aeolian-Skinner, 1933		St. Anne
Principal 8', Great	First Baptist Church, Riverside, California, USA	Schantz, 1966	arpeggio	St. Anne
Pedal Diapasons
Open Diapason 16', Pedal	St. Anne's Church, Moseley, Birmingham, England	Brindley & Foster 1907	arpeggio
Diapason 16', Pedal	Kellogg Auditorium, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA	Aeolian-Skinner, 1933	arpeggio
Principal 16', Pedal	First Baptist Church, Riverside, California, USA	Schantz, 1966	arpeggio

Bibliography

Adlung[1]: §136 Diapason, §148 Frontispicium, §149 Fundamentalis, §167 Montre, §177 Prästant, §184 Regula Primaria. Audsley[1]: Diapason; Montre; Open Diapason; Principal; Regula Primaria. Audsley[2]: I.XIII Baxoncillo, Diapason, Montre, Open Diapason, Principal, Regula Primaria; II.XXXVI Principals. Bedos[1]: § 1268-1270. Bonavia-Hunt[1]: Diapason; Principal. Douglass[1]: 72, 74-77, 83-85, 88-89, 91-92, 96, 101, 109, 113. Grove[1]: Diapason; Flautado; Montre; Principal; Tenori. Hopkins & Rimbault[1]: § 570-571, 573-575, 597, 815. Irwin[1]: Diapason; Montre; Principal. Locher[1]: Diapason; Montre; Octave; Principal. Maclean[1]: Diapason; Montre; Principal. Skinner[1]: 24-26; XII Diapason, Principal. Strony[1]: Diapason; Open Diapason. Sumner[1]: Diapason; Montre; Prinzipal; Regula. Wedgwood[1]: Bajoncillo; Diapason; Flautado; Flautado Principal; Frontispicium; Fundamentalis; Montre; Primaria Regula; Principal; Regula. Williams[1]: Glossary: Diapason; Flautado; Montre; Prinzipal; Spitzflöte; Tenori.

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