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Webster 1913 Edition
Bombardon
{ ‖
Bom-bar′do
,Bom-bar′don
, }Noun.
[It.
bombardo
.] (Mus.)
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.
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