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bombardon

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Noun

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bom=bar=don

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun bombardon has 2 senses

bombardon(n = noun.artifact) helicon - a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician; Array

is a kind of bass horn, sousaphone, tuba

bombardon(n = noun.artifact) bombard - a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family; Array

is a kind of bass, shawm

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bombardon, n. [It. bombardo.].

Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bombardon, n. Mus.
1 a type of valved bass tuba.
2 an organ stop imitating this.

Etymology

It. bombardone f. bombardo bassoon

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