Note 151 — REGISTRATION AND ORNAMENTS OF BACH’S ORGAN WORKS

Mattheson says, à propos of this stop: "The French have given to the Nachsatz (thus named on account of its high pitch, in contrast to the Untersatz of thirty-two feet) of the Netherlanders, the designation Nasard or Nasarde, 'a vulgar expression, of which use is made in comedy or burlesque,' says Boyer's dictionary."