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Brass instrument
Answer for the clue "Brass instrument ", 9 letters:
bombardon
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician [syn: helicon ] a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family [syn: bombard ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A brass instrument, the bass version of the tuba. 2 A bass instrument of the shawm family
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bombardo \Bom*bar"do\, Bombardon \Bom*bar"don\, n. [It. bombardo.] (Mus.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the ...
Usage examples of bombardon.
She liked to imagine that she was young again and that my father was striding out, his cheeks inflated, his tuba his bombardon reflecting the sun.
Through the window, he could see, in the light from the setting sun that filled the bar, the musicians in their white linen trousers and silver-braided caps, and now and then one of them would jokingly sound a long note on his bombardon or trombone, while the golden liquid sparkled in the glasses.
Many floating bombardons which were not designed for such conditions broke from their moorings and crashed into other breakwaters and the anchored shipping.
On the bombardons there were only Annibale Cantalamessa and Pio Bo, and their presence, without Jacopo, must have made a crucial contribution to the collapse of Nazism-Fascism.
Don Tico beat his pitch pipe in the air, the clarinets whined with exhaustion, the saxophones gave strangled bleats, the bombardons and the trumpets let out squeals of agony, but they made it, all the way to the village, to the foot of the steep path that led to the cemetery.