Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A brass instrument resembling a tuba but with a lower pitch; a bass or contrabass tuba.
- n. A 16- or 32-foot reed stop on an organ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A brass instrument, the bass version of the tuba.
- n. A bass instrument of the shawm family
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large-sized musical instrument of the trumpet kind, in tone not unlike the ophicleide.
- n. The lowest of the sax-horns.
- n. Formerly, a bass reed-stop of the organ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family
- n. a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician
Etymologies
Examples
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The contra-bombardon man, we understand, also complains that his instrument is too tight round the chest.
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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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The bombardon, or E flat tuba, has much richer lower notes.
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The visitor put out his hand, but as I offered him the bombardon he waved it aside impatiently and pointed to the cornet.
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She seemed to me to walk nervously, as if brought up for punishment; and a thought took me -- and I shall be glad of it when I come to die -- that if they meant to ill-use her I might do worse than assault that venerable pair with my bombardon and end my adventures with credit.
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I had left it, as you know, in the boat, and had heard no order given; but the boat I never saw again, and here was my bombardon.
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I believe he would have done it for the sake of the cornet; but before I had finished eating, up stepped a sentry escorting a man with my bombardon under his arm.
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This was the old man who had listened to my performance on the bombardon.
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O'Hara wouldn't wake, so I just lifted him on board like a sack, tossed in his cornet and my bombardon, tumbled in on top of them, and started to row for dear life towards the ship's light in the offing.
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Jerry, with his battered bombardon in his hand, evidently on his way from the band-room to the sergeants 'quarters.
The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne
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