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Also spelled:
racket
Also called:
ranket
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reedpipe
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rackett Rackett by W. Wyme, c. 1700.

rackett

musical instrument
Also known as: racket, ranket
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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.

Finger holes were provided. The sound was reedy, low-pitched, and muffled. The compass was a 12th.