flue stop

noun

An organ stop that has the tone of a flue pipe.

Meanings

nounflue stop (plural flue stops)

plural flue stops

  1. entertainmentAn organ stop that has the tone of a flue pipe.

    This may be taken, either on a soft small flue stop on the great coupled to swell to oboe, or on the swell to oboe as suggested in the arrangement.

    1922, Herbert F. Ellingford, The Art Of Transcribing For The Organ, THE H. W. GRAY COMPANY, page 73
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