Etymology

sarrusophone

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Today it means: Any of a family of wind instruments intended to replace the oboe and bassoon in bands. Full definition →

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The story

From Pierre-Auguste Sarrus, French bandmaster.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.