| Title: | Prestant |
| Original Title: | Prestant |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 13 (1765), p. 332 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Charles Ferguson [Colby College, Emeritus] |
| Subject terms: |
Organ stop
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| Citation (MLA): | "Prestant." 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.did2222.0004.005>. Trans. of "Prestant," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 13. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Prestant." 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.did2222.0004.005 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Prestant," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 13:332 (Paris, 1765). |
Prestant. This stop is one of those called mutations ; [1] it speaks the octave above the 8’ [stops] and the harpsichord, two octaves above the 16’ Bourdon, and in unison with the 4’ [stop]. See the table of compasses of organ stops [Plate XI, fig. 67], and [Plate VIII] fig. 34 , showing a Prestant pipe. This stop is open, and of tin; its longest pipe speaks C and is four feet long. The Prestant is used to lay the bearings ( see Tempering) and tune all the other stops. See Tuning.
1. Used here instead of “flues” (Translator’s note).