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The modern Bombarde is a powerful chorus reed, most often found in the pedals at 16' and 32' pitch (where it may be called Contra Bombarde or Contrebombarde), or on the manuals at 16'. It is found most often in French organs, along with the French Trompette. It is named after a medieval/renaissance instrument known as the Bombard, which was a term sometimes applied to the larger members of the shawm family.
The Bombarde can be described as the basic 16' reed in France, and has a low fundamental tone with a high amount of upper harmonics in contrast with the Posaune, which has a strong fundamental and lesser partials.
Usage examples of "bombarde".
If the Parisians continued after this to hold out, Paris would be bombarded, and, if necessary, burned.
Since the forts have been bombarded, he has persuaded himself that he is eating, drinking, and sleeping under the fire of the enemy.
The distribution has been thrown into disorder by the people from the bombarded quarters flocking into the central ones, and wanting to be fed.
I would at any time prefer to be for 24 hours in the most exposed portion of a bombarded town, than walk 24 times across Oxford Street in the middle of the day.
Admiral Turner, first to admit that Tarawa had not been bombarded long enough or well enough, was determined that this island should be properly pulverized.
Black Prince and Erebus, for 50 minutes following H-hour, bombarded heavy German batteries north of the beachhead, using air spot.
They bombarded Iwo vigorously on 16 and 17 February, evoking no reply from the defenders until seven LCI gunboats, advancing in line abreast to cover the underwater demolition teams, drew a torrent of gunfire.
In spite of the fact that the buildings of the station are daily bombarded with 75-mm.
Between May 4 and 25 our air groups struck the same area as before, and on May 4 our ships bombarded the island of Miyako.
They probably produced neutrons when they performed an experiment in which they bombarded aluminum with alpha particles.
Jean Joliot, published a paper reporting that gamma rays were produced when paraffin was bombarded with alpha particles.
He soon found that if beryllium was bombarded with alpha particles, a kind of radiation consisting of particles with a mass close to that of the proton were produced.
When protons were bombarded with high-energy electrons, pointlike charges were discovered inside the proton.
Malines has been bombarded again, and Antwerp is filled with refugees.
Only dimly aware of anything beyond the sharp needles of pleasure that bombarded her senses with every hard pull of his mouth on the tender tip, Aliya responded mindlessly to his insistent tug on the back of her knees, drawing up first one and then the other.