Etymology
Origin of bass horn
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
In a little while Russ and Rose were telling their grandfather about the queer noise of the bass horn.
From Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's by Hope, Laura Lee
The music rose to grandeur with the deep bass horn of the big black beetle; the mocking bird's flute brought me to tears of rapture, and the screech-owl's fife made me want to fight.
From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Taylor, Robert L.
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