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BASSOON
- A double-reed woodwind instrument having a long U-shaped conical tube connected to the mouthpiece by a thin metal tube and a usual range two octaves lower than that of the oboe.
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Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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