baroque rackett (Conical bored compact double reed)

~ Wind instrument

Description

Improved by Johann Christoph Denner sometime around 1730, its "coiled snake" bore now is conical, in addition it is played through a removable metal curled mouth piece.

Relationships

from:Germany
invented by:Johann Christoph Denner (instrument maker and improver) (in 1730)
used in:baroque
type of:double reed
related instruments:dulcian (Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon)
picture:https://static.metabrainz.org/irombook/rackett/rackett_baroque.png [info]
Wikidata:Q1398629 [info]
other databases:https://saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com/gakki/gakki_jiten_rakett.html [info]