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DICTIONARY OF ORGAN STOPS.
it frequently possesses rather a "fluffy,'' woolly quality, by no means
prepossessing. On the very rare occasions on which it is there employed
in a 2 ft. pitch, it is of large scale and sharp tone.
WALD HO RN—Feldhorn, Corno di Caccia, Cornetto
di Caccia, Cor de Chasse, Come Parforce,
Come Sylvestre. (Ger.) Wald = wood, Feld =
field ; Parforcejagd = hunting; (Fr.) Chasse =
chase, Sylvestre = pertaining to a wood, rustic
(It.) Corno di Caccia = Hunting Horn.
These names have reference to the ancient hunting
horn. The Corno di Caccia, as an organ stop, is some-
times equivalent to Clarinet. When of 2 ft. pitch the
Waldhorn was identical with the Waldflote, and usually
so when of a 4
was a reed, imitative of the hunting horn. In the
museum at Kelso are preserved two specimens of the
ft. pitch. In unison pitch the Waldhorn
hunting horn. One of them measures in diameter
i6£ ins. external, 14^ ins. internal, measurement, and
9-| ins. across the bell. A correspondent in " Notes
and Queries" (Sep. 8th, 1888) supplies the information
that such horns were always worn by the huntsmen at
St. Germain-en-Laye as late as 1857-58, Konigsberg
Cathedral (1720); Lund Cathedral, Sweden (tongues
of German silver). The name, Waldhorn, is also applied
by Mr. John H. Compton, of Nottingham, to a stop
of his invention. It is a very powerful free-toned
Double reed, resembling in quality the Double English
Horn, though more powerful than that stop. It is
only suited to large instruments. See also the same
builder's French Horn.
Weidenflote—Weidenpfeife. See Salicional.
Weigle's Patent Pipes— See
Stentorphon, and Seraphon Register.
Weitpfeife—(Ger.) Weit = wide, broad. 8 ft.
4 ft. ; 2 ft.
Waldhorn (Compton). a large-scaled Flute, synonymous with Blockflote.
WIENERFL.OTE—See Vienna Flute.
Wohlklang—(Ger.) Wohl = well; Klang = sound.
A name sometimes given to the Harmonika.
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