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Vox humana   /vɑks hjumˈænə/   Listen
Vox humana

noun
1.
An organ reed stop producing tones imitative of the human voice.






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"Vox humana" Quotes from Famous Books



... and is at first almost disappointed, although it is not long in discovering its vast compass, and its wonderful imitations, now of a full orchestra, and again of a single instrument. One has not to wait long before he is mastered by its spell. The vox humana stop did not strike me as so perfect as that of the organ in the Rev. Mr. Hale's church in Boston, though the imitation of choir-voices responding to the organ was very effective. But it is not in tricks of imitation that this organ ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner



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