The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Musical Instruments

"Basso"

Leopoldo Franciolini

Date

second half of the 19th century

Medium

brass

Dimensions

Diameter (Of bell): 8 in. (20.3 cm) Length (Of tube): 27 3/4 in. (70.5 cm)

Object type

"Basso"

Classification

Aerophone-Lip Vibrated-horn

Culture

Italian

Country

Italy

Object number

89.4.2367

Credit line

The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889

The Met object ID 504735. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.