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DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS.<br />

MUSETTE—8 ft. ; sometimes 16 ft. ; 4 ft.<br />

The Musette is a development <strong>of</strong> the ancient Chalumeau, and<br />

was originally said to be imitative <strong>of</strong> the Bagpipes. Though not<br />

uncommon in France, the stop is rarely to be met with in this<br />

country. Its tone is thin and piquant, somewhat similar in the<br />

treble to that <strong>of</strong> the Cor Anglais. The pipes <strong>of</strong> the Musette vary<br />

in shape. Generally they resemble those <strong>of</strong> the Orchestral Oboe<br />

or the Vox Humana. It is made either as a free or a beating<br />

reed. There is a good specimen <strong>of</strong> the latter type at Rugby<br />

School Speech Room (Bryceson). The figure represents a form<br />

<strong>of</strong> Musette invented by Mr. John H. Compton, <strong>of</strong> Nottingham,<br />

The pipe is capped at top, but at about one-third <strong>of</strong> the length<br />

<strong>of</strong> the pipe, measured from the top, is pierced a small round<br />

hole. The upper portion <strong>of</strong> the pipe, acting as a resonating<br />

chamber, imparts a very quaint and "pastoral" effect to the tone.<br />

The tubes, which are approximately half-length (see Reed), and<br />

made <strong>of</strong> pure tin, are <strong>of</strong> very narrow scale, and the tone, conse-<br />

quently, is very thin and delicate.<br />

Musicirgedackt— (Ger.) Musiciren = to make music. 8 ft.<br />

A s<strong>of</strong>t accompanimental Gedeckt found in ancient German<br />

<strong>organ</strong>s.<br />

Mutation Stop.<br />

The term Mutation comprises those <strong>stops</strong>, the pipes <strong>of</strong> which<br />

sound at a pitch other than that <strong>of</strong> unison or one <strong>of</strong> its octaves.<br />

Such <strong>stops</strong> are : Quint, Twelfth, Tierce, Larigot, Flat Septime,<br />

Twenty-sixth, etc. In practice the name Mutation work is applied<br />

Musette, also to Mixtures, although the latter may contain such "found-<br />

(Compton).<br />

at ,on " ranks as Principal, Fifteenth, Twenty-second. See<br />

Foundation Stops.<br />

Muted "Viol—See Viole Sourdine.<br />

N.<br />

NACHTHORN— (Ger.) = Night Horn. See Cor de Nuit.<br />

NASAT—Nasad, Nasard, Nasaz, Nassat, Nassatt, Nazard, Nazardo.<br />

The Twelfth. Sometimes synonymous with Rauschquint (q.v.).<br />

The name is derived from either (1), (Ger.) Nase = nose. From the<br />

bare nasal sound supposedly produced by the sounding <strong>of</strong> fifths. Or, (2)<br />

(Ger.) Nachsetzen = to place behind. In the ancient primitive <strong>organ</strong>s<br />

the Prestant (Lat., Prsestare = to stand before) composed the first row <strong>of</strong><br />

pipes, the Mixture, sometimes called Nachsatz, standing behind. It is<br />

thought that a relic <strong>of</strong> this survives in the name Nasat.

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