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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 typically bored with nine extremely narrow channels connected in a series. In the earlier forms the cylindrically bored channels emerged at the side or bottom of the instrument; the Baroque instrument had a modified conical bore, and the channels emerged at the top of the instrument
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