Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A tenor clarinet, pitched in F, having a wider bell and greater range than a standard clarinet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A musical instrument of the clarinet class, having a single reed and a long twice-bent wooden tube; really the tenor clarinet, being intermediate between the clarinet proper and the bass clarinet. Its compass is four octaves and two tones from the second F below middle C.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Mus.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves; The corno di bassetto.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An alto instrument of the clarinet family, pitched in F below middle C, with a range reaching down to F below that.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Partial translation of German Bassetthorn : Bassett, type of low-pitched string instrument (ultimately from Italian basso, low; see basso) + Horn, horn (from the resemblance of early crescent-shaped models to hunting horns).]

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From German Bassetthorn, translation of French cor de bassette, from Italian corno di bassetto.

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