| 单词 | bass rackett |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbass rackett 1. A double-reed woodwind instrument of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, with a squat cylindrical body in which nine parallel bores are drilled lengthwise to form a continuous undulating tube. Sometimes with preceding modifying word, indicating the size or pitch of the instrument, as bass rackett, tenor rackett, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > oboe-like instruments shepherd's pipec1440 alto fagotto1829 tenoroon1849 krummhorn1864 zurna1870 rackett1876 suona1881 heckelphone1905 surnai1905 shehnai1914 doppione1953 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 374/1 Rackett, Rankett, (1) an obsolete wind-instrument of the double bassoon kind. 1891 C. R. Day Descriptive Catal. Musical Instruments Royal Mil. Exhib., London, 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. 1910 F. W. Galpin Old Eng. Instruments of Mus. ix. 167 A yet shorter instrument of bass pitch with a cylindrical-shaped tube..was called the Racket. 1939 A. Carse Mus. Wind Instruments 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. 1961 A. C. Baines Musical Instruments 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. 1993 New Mexico Daily Lobo 11 Mar. (Insert) 5/1 Instruments such as the viola de gamba, crumhorn, ranket and the shawm will play parts in two concerts to be given..by a local medieval and Renaissance music ensemble. < as lemmas |
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