Tibia

Tibia (Lat.: shinbone), 1. Lat. equivalent of aulos, literally: pipe; 2. bone flute; 3. in late med. times a reed instr. in general, a shawm in particular. Tinctoris, in the late 15th c., glosses it as celimela, a shawm; 4. organ stop of flue pipes, syn. of flute, hohlflute, on the European Continent; in Engl. and Amer. organs usually of rectangular, wide-scale pipes, with high mouths, on high pressure; foundation stop of the former theater organ. The upper partíais are eliminated as much as…