Bassoon

[bə'suːn] or [bə'sun]

Definition

(noun.) a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family.

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Definition

(n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

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Definition

n. (It. fagotto) a musical wind-instrument filling an important place in the modern orchestra of the reed species made of maple-wood or plane-tree its compass from B flat below the bass stave to C in the treble.—The Double bassoon (It. contrafagotto) sounds an octave lower.—n. Bassoon′ist.

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