Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bombardo \Bom*bar"do\, Bombardon \Bom*bar"don\, n. [It.
   bombardo.] (Mus.)
   Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon
   family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name
   bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of
   the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. --Grove.