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
The shriller horn belonged to Amer bin Osman, and was blown by Moto; but what did the bass horn from the interior of the village mean?
From My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
Not a fluttering whistle like the postman's, nor a heavy tone like an organ pipe or bass horn.
From What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know by Wright, John Dutton
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