Meanings
nountirasse (plural tirasses)
plural tirasses
- rareA pedal-coupler in organ-building.
This way is not only more beautiful but more difficult, unless one is assisted by a Tirasse or Marche Pieds.
1995, Fenner Douglass, The Language of the Classical French Organ, page 2031 more example
In early and middle-period instruments (through at least 1875), only the Grand Orgue, or possibly the Positif, was equipped with a Tirasse.
2006, Douglas Earl Bush, The Organ: An Encyclopedia, page 569
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