Organ Pipe

Word ORGAN PIPE
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The organ-pipe effect seemed to amplify the massed choirs of a bird I had always known as a rather annoying species of attention-seeking chirpy-chappie pecking a tiny mirror in a cage. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

The first two hours of this drive are especially fine -- four-lane toll road, some of it through mountain desert filled with giant saguaro and organ-pipe cactus. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The organ-pipe cactus blasted out louder music, and they began to dance. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1983)

The foothills loomed up here, too -- more lava formations, huge rocks balanced on top of each other and strewn along slopes that also bore catclaw, cholla, organ-pipe cactus abloom with pink and white and lavender flowers. ❋ Pronzini, Bill (1981)

Figure 19, which shows the construction of a reed organ-pipe. ❋ George Laing Miller (N/A)

Of course, an artificial mouthpiece has to be provided for our organ-pipe, but this is called the _boot_. ❋ George Laing Miller (N/A)

Thus, by similarity of form we have _brain_ coral, _organ-pipe_ coral, _mushroom_ coral, _staghorn_ coral, etc. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)

This causes them to emit musical sounds of a pitch proportioned to their length, as in an organ-pipe. ❋ Various (N/A)

The two vocal cords which act simultaneously and are anatomically alike, when set in vibration by the blast of air coming from the lungs, correspond to the reed of the organ-pipe; the vibration of the cords, producing sound, which is communicated to the air enclosed in the cavities of the chest and head. ❋ Francis E. Howard (N/A)

The larynx, in the production of sound, may be compared to an organ-pipe. ❋ Francis E. Howard (N/A)

But why dwell on the little book, which was only the trembling organ-pipe through which the music thrilled? ❋ Various (N/A)

They were frequently double, but the prototype of the reed organ-pipe is to be seen in the clarinet, where the reed is single and beats against the mouthpiece. ❋ George Laing Miller (N/A)

We should expect, for instance, that the note emitted by an organ-pipe placed with its axis parallel to the direction of travel would be different from that emitted if the axis of the pipe were placed perpendicular to this direction. ❋ Unknown (1920)

In the construction of the aerophone the same kind of tympanum is used as in the phonograph, but the imitation of the human voice, or the transmission of sound, is effected by the quick opening and closing of valves placed within a steam-whistle or an organ-pipe. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The inhuman beings into whose hearts the Evil One had put it to conceive these statues, had made their heads into a sort of organ-pipe, so that their mouths should catch the wind and sound with its blowing. ❋ Unknown (1910)

It is the sounding of an organ-pipe, in consequence of some derangement or maladjustment, independently of the action of the player. ❋ 1817-1893 (1910)

And one morning in the Hoodoo country, where we were looking for sheep, we came round a jut of the strange, organ-pipe formation upon a longlegged boy of about nineteen, also hunting. ❋ Owen Wister (1899)

They stand in yards, which are enclosed by fences of organ-pipe cactus. ❋ Frederick Starr (1895)

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