Basset horn
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* [http://www.cph.rcm.ac.uk/Catalogues/Wind%20Catalogue/index.htm Centre for Performance History Museum of Instruments, Catalogue Part I: Wind Instruments]: | * [http://www.cph.rcm.ac.uk/Catalogues/Wind%20Catalogue/index.htm Centre for Performance History Museum of Instruments, Catalogue Part I: Wind Instruments]: | ||
** [http://www.cph.rcm.ac.uk/Catalogues/Wind%20Catalogue/Clarinets7bassethorn.htm Basset Horns] (pictures and info for several instruments) | ** [http://www.cph.rcm.ac.uk/Catalogues/Wind%20Catalogue/Clarinets7bassethorn.htm Basset Horns] (pictures and info for several instruments) | ||
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Current revision as of 17:33, 14 September 2006
The basset horn, which is not a horn but a clarinet, was popular enough in the 18th century that it probably should be considered mundane, though marginally so -- not odd, but near-odd. The old basset horns look odd enough to modern eyes, though, that they are arguably Category 3 odd instruments.
[edit] Odd Basset Horns
- Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
- Basset horn in E-flat Grenser & Wiesner, about 1820 (picture and info).
- Basset horn in F by Jakob Friedrich Grundmann, 1791 (picture and info).
- Basset horn in F by Raymund Griesbacher, about 1810-18 (picture and info).
- Centre for Performance History Museum of Instruments, Catalogue Part I: Wind Instruments:
- Basset Horns (pictures and info for several instruments)
