(n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three instrumental timbres were tested in all contexts: clarinet, trumpet, and bassoon.
(2) The bassoon versions were best discriminated in the single-voice patterns, with equal discrimination in the isolated and multivoice cases.
(3) He's right there, painting the heads of the front row audience and the orchestra beyond, with the madcap performance of the dancers, dressed as nuns, flurrying about on the stage, seen through a forest of bassoons in the woodwind section.
(4) It is suggested that these results were due to pronounced physical differences observed between the spectra of the two versions of the bassoon that were not apparent between the versions of the clarinet or trumpet.
Curtal
Definition:
(a.) Curt; brief; laconic.
(n.) A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.