Trompette harmonique

Trompette harmonique 1. Fr. 17th-c. term for trombone. Both Mersenne and Trichet use the word in this sense; 2. organ stop of overblowing reed pipes, invented by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll of Paris in the 19th c., with medium scale. Called Harmonietrompete in Ger. Cf. clairon harmonique (133). Mahrenholz, Christian. Die Orgelregister, ihre Geschichte und ihr Bau. Kassel, 1942.