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Contrabassoon

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way.
  2. 2
    the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family wordnet

Etymology

Semi-anglicized version of Italian contrafagotto, probably following the model of the English word contrabass (which derives from Italian contrabbasso).

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