Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
oboe da caccia (which see, underoboe ). - In organ-building, noting a stop which does not extend below tenor C: as, a tenoroon hautboy.
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- noun music
tenor bassoon
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- noun a tenor bassoon; pitched a fifth higher than the ordinary bassoon
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The tenoroon, with which the oboe di caccia has been compared, was a high bassoon really on octave and a fifth below.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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