baritone horn
- noun
- /ˈbɛrɪˌtoʊn hɔrn/
:
trombón bajo
- Armstrong played the baritone horn in his high school band.
- played the baritone horn
Examples
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Leon played saxophone, James Randell played baritone horn, and Kenneth Melvin played trumpet.
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Leon played saxophone, James Randell played baritone horn, and Kenneth Melvin played trumpet.
Fiction book (1993) -
At the concert, the rich sound of the baritone horn captivated the audience.
Synonyms
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A brass instrument like a small tuba with a low warm sound
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'baritone' (indicating a low/mid pitch) with 'horn' (a brass instrument), so a listener who knows both words can infer it is a horn with a baritone range. This is a regular noun + noun compound pattern found across languages and follows ordinary compositional semantics, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Baritone horn comes from baritone, meaning a 'deep' singing voice, and horn, a word for a brass instrument. The name is a simple memory hook: the instrument makes a 'warm' low sound between the trombone and the tuba, so it tells you it plays the lower, mellow parts.