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  • noun Plural form of bombardon.

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  • He could not play brass instruments to any musical purpose; but his collection of double slide trombones, bombardons with patent compensating pistons, comma trumpets, and the like, would have equipped a small military band; whilst his newly tempered harmonium with fifty-three notes to each octave, and his pianos with simplified keyboards that nobody could play on, were the despair of all musical amateurs who came to stay at Towers

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

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