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  • n  either of the two main stops on a pipe organ

  • Chet is also the founder and "grand diapason" of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (PTI, May 25, 1931), formed to combat the impression that all famous men earned their .
  • The mimeographed Bulletin was under no illusion that its cheerful chirping could drown out the harsh diapason from the rest of the press.
  • In 1866 oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos.
News & Articles

  • Central Bank Monetization And Scrambled Economic Signals
    Excerpted from Diapason Commodities' Sean Corrigan's five-part series 'Time and Money' ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , and Part 5 ) originally posted at The Cobden Center blog, ... [Our investments] should be funded with scarce savings, not financed by the paltry fiction of banking book entries and hence the business of investment should be conducted only in accordance with the balance we ...
    July 29, 2013 - Zero Hedge
Quotes

  • JP Morgan in Reuters
    Investors may gain exposure to the Diapason Commodity Rotator in a wide range of currencies, maturities, and risk profiles, including principal-protected structured products,Diapason and JPMorgan said in a release.
  • Simon Callow in Times Online
    It was simply phenomenal,said Simon Callow from the pulpit, "with more stops than any organ, from piping treble to full-throated diapason. The critical thesaurus was ransacked to describe its astonishing variety of registers: the sometimes...

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