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bassoon
(bəsuːn)
Word forms: plural bassoons
variable noun
A bassoon is a large musical instrument of the woodwind family that is shaped like a tube and played by blowing into a curved metal pipe.
bassoon in British English
(bəˈsuːn)
noun
1.
a woodwind instrument, the tenor of the oboe family. Range: about three and a half octaves upwards from the B flat below the bass staff
2.
an orchestral musician who plays the bassoon
Derived forms
bassoonist (basˈsoonist) noun
Word origin
C18: from French basson, from Italian bassone, from basso deep; see base2bassoon in American English
(bæˈsun; bəˈsun)
noun
a double-reed bass woodwind instrument having a long, curved stem attached to the mouthpiece
Derived forms
bassoonist (basˈsoonist) noun
Word origin
Fr basson < It bassone < bassoImage ofbassoon
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British English: bassoon /bəˈsuːn/ NOUN
A bassoon is a large musical instrument of the woodwind family that is shaped like a tube and played by blowing into a curved metal pipe.
- American English: bassoon
- Arabic: البَسُون
- Brazilian Portuguese: fagote
- Chinese: 巴松管
- Croatian: fagot
- Czech: fagot
- Danish: fagot
- Dutch: fagot
- European Spanish: fagot
- Finnish: fagotti
- French: basson
- German: Fagott
- Greek: φαγκότο
- Italian: fagotto
- Japanese: ファゴット
- Korean: 바순
- Norwegian: fagott
- Polish: fagot
- European Portuguese: fagote
- Romanian: fagot
- Russian: фагот
- Latin American Spanish: fagot
- Swedish: fagott
- Thai: ปี่ใหญ่
- Turkish: fagot
- Ukrainian: фагот
- Vietnamese: kèn bassoon