bassoons

[ba-soon, buh-]

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noun

a large woodwind instrument of low range, with a doubled tube and a curved metal crook to which a double reed is attached.

Origin:
1720–30; < French basson < Italian bassone (bass(o) low (see base²) + -one augmentative suffix)

Related forms

bas·soon·ist, noun

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