tirasse
English
Noun
tirasse (plural tirasses)
- (very rare) A pedal-coupler in organ-building.
- 1995, Fenner Douglass, The Language of the Classical French Organ, page 203:
- This way is not only more beautiful but more difficult, unless one is assisted by a Tirasse or Marche Pieds.
- 2006, Douglas Earl Bush, The Organ: An Encyclopedia, page 569:
- In early and middle-period instruments (through at least 1875), only the Grand Orgue, or possibly the Positif, was equipped with a Tirasse.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti.ʁas/
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