Etymology
Origin of bass horn
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Conductor Mayo Buckner is a versatile musician; he sings bass, plays the violin, piccolo, clarinet, flute, bass horn, cornet and saxophone.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they finally let him speak, his voice, with the flat, deep quality of a bass horn, touched off one outburst after another.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tenor horns are crooning, and the bass horn blatting gently, while the clarionet players are chasing each other up and down the scale, like squirrels running round and round in a cage.
From Homeburg Memories by Fitch, George
I can hear Billy English blow the big bass horn.
From The Circus Boys in Dixie Land : or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South by Darlington, Edgar B. P.
In course of time keys were added to it, and when changed into a bassoon shape its name changed to the Russian bass horn or basson Russe.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
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