The basset horn is a member of the clarinet family of musical instruments.
Modern basset horn (German and French System, Schwenk & Seggelke)
Angled barrel of a modern basset horn (German System)
Mozart Divertimento for 3 Basset Horns (Kay Lipton - "Art Informed By Music")
Museum of Musical Instruments, Berlin: 18th-century basset horns (with clarinets, a flute, and bassoons)
The clarinet family is a woodwind instrument family of various sizes and types of clarinets, including the common soprano clarinet in B♭ and A, bass clarinet, and sopranino E♭ clarinet.
A group of different clarinets. In order from left to right: bass clarinet, E♭ alto clarinet, soprano clarinets in C, B♭, A, E♭, and D, and clarinets in high and low G.
Different instruments of the clarinet family (German system) played by Tribal Clarinet Trio. Left to right: deep G clarinet (Theo Jörgensmann), contrabass clarinet (Ernst Ulrich Deuker), basset horn (Etienne Rolin).
The deepest tones (sounding) of all members of the clarinet family.
Clarinets in A♭, E♭, and B♭, basset clarinet in A, alto clarinet, basset horn, two bass clarinets (ranging to low E♭ and low C), contra alto clarinet, and contrabass clarinet.