bombardon

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The euphonium and bombardon, the basses of the important family of saxhorns, now completely cover the ground of bass wind instrument music.

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  1. noun A brass instrument resembling a tuba but with a lower pitch; a bass or contrabass tuba.
  2. noun A 16- or 32-foot reed stop on an organ.

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  • The euphonium and bombardon, the basses of the important family of saxhorns, now completely cover the ground of bass wind instrument music. —  Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
  • The bombardon, or E flat tuba, has much richer lower notes For military purposes, this and the contrabass--the helicon--are circular. —  Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
  • Was it me he wanted, or the bombardon I fancy he thought of you together; but of course he did not ask for the big thing--that would have been greedy. —  The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
  • The contra-bombardon man, we understand, also complains that his instrument is too tight round the chest The one unselfish friend of man is the dog," said Sir FREDERICK BANBURY, M.P. A less courageous man would certainly have mentioned the PRESIDENT of the United States A correspondent who signs himself "Selborne" writes to inform us that about 9 A.M. last Thursday he noticed a pair of labourers building within a stone's-throw of Catford Bridge A Hendon man has just completed sixty-two years in a church choir. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919
  • Once only in his life he had been thrown into a state of excitement and shown signs of animation, and that was when he read in the newspapers of a new instrument at the Universal Exhibition in London, the 'contro-bombardon,' and became very anxious to order this instrument for himself, and even made inquiries as to where to send the money and through what office. —  On the Eve
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  1. French, from Italian bombardone, augmentative of bombardo, alteration of bombarda, bombard, from Medieval Latin; see bombard.
 

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/bɑmˈbɑrdən, bɑmbɑrˈdoʊnɛ/
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