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1. Rackett
   Rack'ett (-ĕt) noun [ Etymol. uncertain.] (Mus.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
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2. Rackett
   • (n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
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3. rackett
   (from German Rank, `bend`), in music, double-reed wind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries. It consisted of a short wooden or ivory cylinder ... [1 related articles]
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4. Rackett
   The rackett was an old musical wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys. It was not of an extended compass, being incapable of producing harmonics. It was a double-reed instrument, the reed being at the end of a tube through which the player blew. The tone was nasal a...
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5. Rackett
   Syntagma Musicum Theatrum Instrumentorum seu Sciagraphia (1620) The `rackett` is a Renaissance-era double reed wind instrument. There are several sizes of rackett, in a family ranging from soprano to great bass. Relative to their pitch, racketts are quite small (the tenor rackett is only 4ÂÂ...
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6. RACKETT
   (band) `RACKETT` is a self-described "three-car garage rock" band that originated from songs written and recorded by the poet accessdate=2007-04-27-->--> and the 17th century in poetry|17th century poetry scholar Nigel Smith--> during mid-to-late archivedate = 2007-07-09-->--> Paul ...
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