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Pitch pipe   /pɪtʃ paɪp/   Listen
Pitch pipe

noun
1.
A small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency; used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing.






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"Pitch pipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... another break in his progress for over a year. He began in earnest when he returned in 1903 and he steadily forged ahead. While he was away he studied and pondered over all the former instructions and with the aid of a pitch pipe he soon was busy at his songs and exercises. He returned in 1904 ill, discouraged to the breaking point. After my accident I was much exercised as to the outcome of all these years of preparation. He was ready to start out as ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson

... it blew bitter cold, and Priest Ware, preaching in mittens, denounced sedition in general. Underneath him, on the first landing of the high pulpit, the deacons sat with knitted brows, and the key-note from Isaiah Prescott's pitch pipe sounded like mournful echo ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill



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