bassoon
noun/bəˈsuːn/
/bəˈsuːn/
- a musical instrument of the woodwind group. It is like a large wooden tube in shape with a double reed that you blow into, and produces notes with a low sound.Topics Musicc2Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French basson, from Italian bassone, from basso ‘low’, from Latin bassus ‘short, low’.
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