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rackett|ˈrækɪt|
Also racket, ranket(t.
[a. G. rackett, rankett.]
1. A Renaissance musical instrument of the oboe family, consisting of a squat cylinder containing nine parallel channels joined alternately at top and bottom to form a continuous tube nine times the length of the cylinder.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 374/1 Rackett, Rankett, (1) an obsolete wind-instrument of the double bassoon kind. 1891C. R. Day Catal. Mus. Instr. R. Milit. Exhib. 1890 100 Racket. This beautiful instrument is constructed in the form of an ivory cylinder, and it is played by means of a rather large double reed. 1910F. W. Galpin Old English Instr. of Music ix. 167 A yet shorter instrument of bass pitch with a cylindrical-shaped tube..was called the Racket. 1939A. Carse Muscial Wind Instr. xiv. 206 In the racket or sausage-bassoon the air-passage is doubled and redoubled to such an extent that the sounding-length of the tube is quite nine times as long as the body of the instrument. 1961A. C. Baines Mus. Instr. through Ages ix. 232 The deep soft buzz of one racket among recorders, cornetts, etc., made a better effect than a whole consort of them [sc. mixed instruments]. 1966― Europ. & Amer. Mus. Instr. 98 The racket contains a number of short parallel bores connected in series to make up a total windway of a metre or more. 1968Radio Times 26 Sept. 48 A unique collection of medieval instruments—including rackett, rebec, crumhorn. 1970Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 26 Feb. 28/1 They have chosen to play medieval music on a number of rare and little-used instruments, including the krummhorn, rauschfeiffer, ranket, and baroque oboes. 1976D. Munrow Instr. Middle Ages & Renaissance 46/1 The rackett's narrow cylindrical bore consists of no less than nine parallel channels drilled in a wooden or ivory cylinder and connected alternately top and bottom.
†2. An organ stop. Obs. exc. Hist.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 374/1 Rackett, Rankett..(2) An organ stop of 16 ft. or 8 ft. pitch now obsolete. 1897H. Riemann Dict. Mus. 629/1 Rackett (Ranket),..in the organ an obsolete reed-stop almost entirely covered, of quiet tone (16 and 8 feet). 1962S. Irwin Dict. Pipe Organ Stops 160 Rankett, a very old form of short-resonatored Reed stop, at 16′ or 8′ on both manual and pedals. |