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bassoon Mus.|bəˈsuːn|
[ad. F. basson, augmentative f. bas, basse bass n.5; or perhaps bas son deep sound (Littré).]
1. A wooden double-reed instrument, with a compass of about three octaves, used as a bass to the oboe, having a pipe eight feet in length, so arranged in parts (whence the Italian name fagotto) that the whole instrument measures only four feet.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v., A good bassoon is said to be worth four or five hundred pistoles. 1778Johnson in Boswell III. 39 In a different language it [poetry] may be the same tune, but it has not the same tone. Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. i. viii, The wedding-guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon. 1855O. W. Holmes Poems 148 As if a broken fife should strive To drown a cracked bassoon. 1880in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 152/1 Handel's scores contain few bassoon parts.
2. a. An organ-stop of a quality of tone similar to that of the bassoon. b. A series of reeds of similar tone in a harmonium, etc. |