corno di bassetto

Noun. corno (plural corni) (music) French horn.

basset horn, clarinet pitched a fourth lower than the ordinary B♭ clarinet, probably invented in the 1760s by Anton and Michael Mayrhofer of Passau, Bavaria. The name derives from its basset (“small bass”) pitch and its original curved horn shape (later supplanted by an angular form).

(music) A certain organ stop of 8' or 16' imitating the sound of the basset horn, similar to the clarinet stop.

clarinet family The basset horn is a low pitched member of the clarinet family, generally pitched in F. It was particularly popular in Vienna in the late eighteenth century, from when this instrument dates.

horn Italian, horn, from Latin cornu.

The use of the “corno” began around the Mediterranean during the Neolithic period, around 3500 B.C. This symbol was used by those ancient people as the bringer of good fortune as well as fertility. As a matter of fact, during that time, fertility was considered a blessing to the community.

F However, the basset horn is larger and has a bend or a kink between the mouthpiece and the upper joint (older instruments are typically curved or bent in the middle), and while the clarinet is typically a transposing instrument in B♭ or A (meaning a written C sounds as a B♭ or A), the basset horn is typically in F ( ...

The modern basset horn, designed with all of the perfected elements of the Boehm system developed by Buffet Crampon, enables clarinettists to play concertos and quintets as they were conceived and imagined by Mozart.

The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria (285–222 BC), who invented the water organ.

Organ stops are sorted into four major types: principal, string, reed, and flute. This is a sortable list of names that may be found associated with electronic and pipe organ stops. Countless stops have been designed over the centuries, and individual organs may have stops, or names of stops, used nowhere else.

/ (Italian ˈkɔrno) / noun.

The History of The Italian Horn The Italian horn can be traced back to ancient times to the Romans when a phallic symbol was often seen as good luck.It is often mistake as a chilli pepper with its traditional red body and later evolved to be a bulls horn associated with power and conquering.