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  • noun music A bass trombone

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  • This was a performance of bold gestures - the placement of trumpets around the upper reaches of the hall, an antique cimbasso providing the bottom end of the trombone section - but which registered its greatest impact in the work's quietest moments.

    Evening Standard - Home Nick Kimberley 2011

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