Meaning of vox humana | Babel Free

Definitions

An organ stop having some resemblance to the human voice.

Examples

“Let me take this other glove off / As the vox humana swells, / And the beauteous fields of Eden / Bask beneath the Abbey bells.”

“While on maneuvers in South Carolina, Billy played hymns he knew from childhood, played them on a little black organ which was waterproof. It had thirty-nine keys and two stops — vox humana and vox celeste.^([sic])”

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