baryton
noun
bar·y·ton
ˈber-ə-ˌtän,
ˈba-rə-
plural barytons
1
: a stringed instrument of the 17th and 18th centuries similar to the bass viol with a fretted fingerboard, six or seven bowed strings, and numerous sympathetic strings behind them
He also had to provide music of all kinds for the establishment, and composed … a hundred and seventy-five works featuring the baryton, the Prince's favored instrument.—
Andrew Porter, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 1991
2
usually Baryton
[borrowed from German]
: an organ reed stop of 8- or 16-foot pitch
barytonist
noun
ˈber-ə-ˌtä-nist
ˈba-rə-
plural barytonists
Even in today's "authentic instrument" climate you don't exactly run across barytonists every day.
—
Barrymore Laurence Scherer, Wall Street Journal, 26 Aug. 1997
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