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Tenoroon

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as oboe da caccia (which see, under oboe).
  • In organ-building, noting a stop which does not extend below tenor C: as, a tenoroon hautboy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. tenor bassoon
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a tenor bassoon; pitched a fifth higher than the ordinary bassoon
  • Word Usage
    "The tenoroon, with which the oboe di caccia has been compared, was a high bassoon really on octave and a fifth below."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bassoon