This string instrument got its name from its old job of playing along with other instruments low notes
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like the oboe usually wooden, played vertically and held in the mouth, but with ... 
the woodwind family, and by far the largest, especially its lower-pitched relation,... [DOC] [TLE] Choosing an instrument - Bronstein Music [PAR] One of the questions we hear all of the time is, "What's the easiest instrument to 
learn?