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Quintade

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Quintade (plural Quintades)

  1. An organ stop corresponding to pewter pipes of 16, 8, 4, and 2 feet.
    • 1930, William Harrison Barnes, The contemporary american organ, page 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.
    • 2011, Randall Harlow, Recent Organ Design Innovations and the 21st-century “Hyperorgan”:
      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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