basset oboe

1. 1.

   an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe

   Synonymsheckelphone

   Broaderoboe

Questions about basset oboe

What does basset oboe mean?

basset oboe means "an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe".

What is another word for basset oboe?

Close synonyms include heckelphone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basset oboe a common word?

basset oboe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.