bass on (bason)

The French form of bas soon.-Ba on quinte (kant), a double-reed instrument of which the pitch is one fifth higher than that of a ba oon. ba oon (ba-sön'), n. [ oboe cla , having a double reed, a long, curved metallic mouthpiece, and a doubled wooden tube or body. Its compa is about three octaves rising from Bo below the ba staff. Its diameter at the bottom is about 2 inches, and for convenience of carriage it is divided into two or more parts, whence its Italian name fagotto, a bundle. It serves for the ba among wood wind-instruments, as hautboys, flutes, etc. 2. A reed-pipe stop in an organ, having a quality of tone resembling that of the ba oon.