Also clari-. [f. L. clār-us, -a, clear + bell-us, -a, beautiful.] An organ-stop of a powerful fluty tone, invented by Bishop.
1840. Specif. Organ, Town Hall Birmingham, in Grove, Dict. Mus., II. 601/1. Clarabella.
1876. Hiles, Catech. Organ, ix. (1878), 60. [The] Clarabella [is] an 8 feet manual stop…. The pipes are of open wood, large scale, giving a thick and powerful fluty tone.
1881. Dickson, Organ-Build., 25. The Clarabella and Hohl Flute … sometimes take the place of the Stopped Diapason in its upper octaves.
