basset horn

The earliest known use of the noun basset-horn is in the 1830s. OED's earliest evidence for basset-horn is from 1835. basset-horn is a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Etymons: French bassette, horn n.

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 ( ...

Most experts on the basset horn believe it was invented in Passau, Bavaria, around 1770 by Anton and Michel Mayrhofer. At first it was shaped like a sickle, had a flared bell and an oblong ''box'' or ''book'' containing three tubes connected in parallel to reduce the length.

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.

It has quite a mellow sound and it's a little bit softer. And more gentle than a regular. Clarinet. Very beautiful mellow sound right now I'm playing this in the Magic Flute with the Vancouver opera.

Basset horns are an early form of bass clarinet invented by Heinrich Gresner.

The french horn is mostly seen as a very challenging instrument.

Basset Horn Transposition The basset horn sounds a perfect 5th below the written note. Transposed parts are notated a perfect 5th above concert pitch (adding one sharp to the key signature) and always notated in treble clef.

Someone who plays a bass clarinet is called a bass clarinettist or a bass clarinetist.

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vuvuzela The vuvuzela /vuːvuːˈzɛlə/ is a horn, with an inexpensive injection-moulded plastic shell about 65 centimetres (2 ft) long, which produces a loud monotone note, typically around B♭ 3 (the first B♭ below middle C).

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