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Description: | The basset horn and the alto clarinet cover a similar range, but the historical basset horn has a unique sound because it has a narrow bore like the soprano clarinet. Brahms described the basset horn as sounding like a cross between a clarinet and a cello. The basset horn's odd shape makes it easier to play. The bent body makes
its finger holes easy to reach. Part of its tubing is folded inside the 'book' or kasten above the bell to keep the instrument from becoming too long.
Basset horn, boxwood, two brass mounts, ivory knee at angle of body. Twelve brass keys, flat, square, mounted in turned blocks and rings, including an open key for F/C and three basset keys for right thumb. Barrel is a later replacement and mouthpiece is modern. Two key guards on the kasten (book) ornamented by a central concave square surrounded by four quatrefoils. Tenon at lower end of the left hand joint lined with thick metal sleeve. Approximate length from mouthpiece tip to barrel opening is 102 cm. Stamped on bell rim: Griessling & Schlott Berlin. Initials on kasten. Mouthpiece is not contemporary and is inscribed Hawkes & Son.
Like the butt joint of the bassoon, the box-shaped 'kasten' of the basset horn conceals extra tubing.
caption: Half-lateral view of object no. 14.5.47/167 from left.
caption: Lateral view of object no. 14.5.47/167 from left. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | cork wood metal 422.211.2 Individual reedpipes with single reeds with cylindrical bore with fingerholes ivory leather basset horns | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12913 | Go to resource |
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