Basset horn

From Oddwinds

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:
  • Basset horn in F (Georg Ottensteiner, Munich, c 1860-1879) (left and right views).
• 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)