a bassoon

A bassoon is a large musical instrument that is shaped like a tube and played by blowing into a curved metal pipe. a musical instrument like a very long wooden tube, that produces a low sound. You hold it upright and play it by blowing into a thin curved metal pipe. (basson, from bassone, from basso, from bassus; BASE). Principal tenor and bass instrument of the orchestral woodwind family. Its mouthpiece has a double reed attached to a curved metal crook, which leads to a narrow conical bore that doubles back on itself (to keep its length manageable). It developed from the older curtal (or dulzian) in the 17th century. An agile instrument with a mild tone, it has a range of 3 1 2 octaves, starting at B-flat two octaves below middle C. The contrabassoon, a large metal instrument whose tubing doubles back four times, has a range an octave lower

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a double-reed woodwind instrument having a long U-shaped conical tube connected to the mouthpiece by a thin metal tube and a usual range two octaves lower than that of the oboe

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a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family

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{i} large woodwind instrument

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It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc

bassoon

A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and, playing in a tenor range

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A bass reed wind instrument developed in 17th century from the Curtal or Dulcian In about 1695, the joined bassoon came into use The Denners of Nuremberg built the first three- then four-keyed Bassoons The Bassoons range and tonality has been refined over its history to become an integral part of orchestral sound

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A low-pitched member of the woodwind instrument family, with the following stages of sound production: energy source: air vibrating element: double reed resonating chamber: the instrument's body

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