basset horn

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   a tenor clarinet; pitched in the key of F below the B-flat clarinet

   Broaderclarinet

Questions about basset horn

What does basset horn mean?

basset horn means "a tenor clarinet; pitched in the key of F below the B-flat clarinet".

Is basset horn a common word?

basset horn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.