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Title: Clairon, pedal
Original Title: Pédale de clairon
Volume and Page: Vol. 12 (1765), p. 235
Author: Louis-Jacques Goussier (biography)
Translator: Charles Ferguson [Colby College, Emeritus]
Subject terms:
Organ stop
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Citation (MLA): Goussier, Louis-Jacques. "Clairon, pedal." 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.did2222.0004.002>. Trans. of "Pédale de clairon," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 12. Paris, 1765.
Citation (Chicago): Goussier, Louis-Jacques. "Clairon, pedal." 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.did2222.0004.002 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Pédale de clairon," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 12:235 (Paris, 1765).

Clairon, pedal. Organ stop which the organist plays by means of the pedal keyboard. This stop speaks an octave higher than the Trompette, pedal , in unison with the bass and tenor range of the Prestant and the Clairon, or four feet. If the pedal keyboard has a short octave, the additional pipes go down to unison with the Basse de Trompette; this reed stop is of tin and differs only in having a wider scale. See the table of compasses of organ stops [Plate XI, fig. 67].