Basset horn
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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.
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)