Pronouncing Dictionary of Musical Terms

How to say it as well as what it means: every Italian, German and French musical term of 1896, respelled phonetically for the student.

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Pyramidon

An organ-stop with pipes shaped like an inverted pyramid, closed at top. From its peculiar shape a pipe not three feet long will produce 16-foot C.

Pyrophone [from Gr., pur, fire, phone, sound]. An instrument the sounds of which are produced by gas jets burning just inside of the lower end of glass tubes open at both ends. Invented by Kastner.

Pyne, J. Kendrick, 2d (son of Ist). Composer, organist; England. B. 1810; d. 1893. Pyne, J. Kendrick, 3d (son of 2d). Composer, organist; England. B. 1852. Pyne, Louisa F. Soprano; England. B. 1832.

Quadrate, B quadratum, i. e., B squared.

Old name for B B- retained as the sign for a.

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