rackett
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thumb|right|300px|Racketts, from Michael Praetorius' [[Syntagma Musicum Theatrum Instrumentorum seu Sciagraphia (1619)]]
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- Rackett (instrument)
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|right|300px|Racketts, from Michael Praetorius' [[Syntagma Musicum Theatrum Instrumentorum seu Sciagraphia (1619)]]
The rackett, raggett, cervelas, or sausage bassoon is a Renaissance-era double reed wind instrument, introduced late in the sixteenth century and already superseded by bassoons at the end of the seventeenth century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “rackett” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.