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basset horn Definition

basset horn

noun

a kind of clarinet pitched in F and ending in a brass bell: its range lies between those of the common clarinet and the bass clarinet

basset-horn Quotes

And later, wondering farmers as they passed would hear beyond the lighted window in the autumn evening two handsome yellow-bosomed basset-hounds howling to a melodious basset-horn.

—Morgan, Edwin George

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