| Title: | Doublette |
| Original Title: | Doublette |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 5 (1755), p. 81 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Charles Ferguson [Colby College, Emeritus] |
| Subject terms: |
Organ stop
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| Citation (MLA): | "Doublette." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Charles Ferguson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.992>. Trans. of "Doublette," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5. Paris, 1755. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Doublette." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Charles Ferguson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.992 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Doublette," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 5:81 (Paris, 1755). |
Doublette. This stop is of tin and speaks an octave above the Prestant; see the article Organ, where its construction is explained, and the table showing the compasses of organ stops [Plate XI]. [Plate IX] fig. 40 shows the largest pipe of the doublette , sounding C , with a length of two feet. This stop has four octaves.