régale

Definition of the French term régale in music:

  1. regal (small portable reed organ popular in the 16th and 17th centuries)
  2. organ reed stop designed to imitate the sound of a regal (equivalent to "Regal" in English, "Regal" in German, and "Regale" in Italian)
Language
French
Singular
régale
Plural
régales

Related terms

French musical terms related to régale:

  • célesta – celesta (keyboard instrument)
  • clavecin – harpsichord
  • clavicorde – clavichord
  • clavicythérium – clavicytherium (harpsichord with vertically mounte...
  • clavier – keyboard (of a keyboard instrument)...
  • clavinet – clavinet
  • épinette – spinet
  • hydraule – water organ
  • mellotron – mellotron (electro-mechanical keyboard instrument)
  • muselaar – muselar (keyboard instrument in the harpsichord fa...
  • orgue – organ (large musical instrument with rows of pipes...
  • orphica – orphica (portable piano)
  • piano – piano
  • virginal – virginals (Renaissance keyboard instrument)