Larigot
An organ stop at 1 1/3 foot pitch, named after an old French fipple-flute instrument.
What it means
The larigot is a high-pitched organ stop at 1 1/3-foot pitch, sounding the fifth above the nazard (2 2/3 foot). Its name comes from a small French fipple flute of the same name, whose sound the stop was meant to imitate.
It belongs to the mutation stops, which reinforce a partial of the harmonic series rather than the fundamental.
In the notation
Like other organ stops, the larigot does not appear in the musical text itself but as a label on the stop knob or in registration instructions, usually marked "1 1/3'".
Musical use
Combined with principal, nazard and other mutation stops, the larigot builds colorful mixture sounds and historical registrations, notably in French organ music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It should be distinguished from the related but lower-pitched nazard (2 2/3 foot) and from the tierce (1 3/5 foot).