[f. VOICE v.]
† 1. Sc. One who votes or has the right to do this; a voter. Obs.
1638. [see VOICE v. 11 b].
1641. R. Baillie, Lett. & Jrnls. (1841), I. 350. They … will force the King either to be our agent, and formall voycer to his death, or else doe the world knows not what.
1651. in Cramond, Ann. Banff (1893), II. 32. He wes … a voicer in Parliament for that ingagement.
2. Organ-building. One who voices the pipes of an organ; esp. a skilled workman whose special task it is to do this.
1879. Organ Voicing, 12. Touching the manufacture of all pipes, it is of paramount importance to the voicer, that they should be thoroughly well made.
1881. W. E. Dickson, Pract. Organ-building, ix. 119. Thus completed and cleaned over, the pipes are handed to the voicer.
1889. Stainer, in Grove, Dict. Mus., IV. 335/2. Few are equally good voicers both of reed and flue-pipes.
