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Late Lat. registrum – list, list, from lat. regestum, lit. – entered, entered

1) A number of chant sounds. voices extracted in the same way and therefore having a single timbre. Depending on a share of participation in a resonance of chest and head cavities distinguish chest, head and mixed R.; male voices, especially tenors, can also extract the sounds of the so-called. falsetto R. (see Falsetto). The transition from one R. to another, i.e. from one mechanism of sound formation to another, causes difficulties for a singer with an undelivered voice and is associated with deviations in the strength of the sound and the very nature of the sound; in the process of preparing singers, they achieve maximum equalization of the sound of the voice throughout its entire range. See Voice.

2) Parts of the range diff. music instruments with the same timbre. The timbre of the sound of the same instrument in high and low frequencies often differs significantly.

3) Devices used on stringed keyboard instruments, primarily on the harpsichord, to change the strength and timbre of the sound. This change can be achieved by plucking the string closer to the peg or using a pen made of another material, as well as using another set of strings of a higher or (rarely) lower tuning, combinations of the sound of this set with the main one.

4) The organ has a series of pipes of a similar design and timbre, but different. heights (Italian registre, English organ stop, French jen dorgue). See Organ.

I. M. Yampolsky