The orchestral Bass Horn, invented around 1800, was a brass instrument
shaped somewhat like a bassoon, with six finger holes.
Wedgwood describes the Bass Horn organ stop as an obsolete 8'
pedal reed, similar
in construction and tone to the Horn.
Irwin describes it as a 16' pedal reed voiced to sound like the
orchestral instrument of the same name, and claims that
Tuba Horn is a synonym.
Examples
No examples of Bass Horn are known
(contributions welcome).
See Tuba Horn for examples of that name.
Bibliography
Irwin[1]:
Bass Horn.
Wedgwood[1]:
Bass Horn.
