Hölzernes Gelächter

Hölzernes Gelächter [S. Ger. Klächel, stick], 1. obs. S. Ger. and Austrian term for xylophone. In the Austrian Alps the term lingered on until the mid-19th c., when it was exchanged for xylophone; 2. obs. organ stop of unknown composition. In 1506 it was called a “new” stop in Speyer. Schlick mentioned it in 1511; it occurred in several early-16th-c. organs of which that at Bern (built in 1517) seems to have been the latest; 3. modern organ stop of flue pipes (117, 133, 167). Sort…