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OCR: FACTS BoX NAME: BASSET-HORN FAMILY: Woodwind WOODWIND PITCH RANGE: At least three octaves MATERIAL: Boxwood and iyory COMPLETE RANGE SIZE: Variable: this example is : about 3ft (90 cm long ORIGINS: The basset -horn was probably invented around 1765 b instrument- makers Mayrhofer in Bavaria Germany- CLASSIFICATION: Aerophone: an instrument that produces its sound by the vibration of a column of air DID YOU KNOW? To enable the basset horn te reach it lowest notes. early models of the instrument had a "box "book' at the lower end of the tube. Inside. an extra length of tube zig-zagged its way through before emerging into a metal bell YOODWIND ivory basse ument vibr befor emer ging