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tárogató
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tárogató
musical instrument
Also known as: t’rogató
tárogató, single-reed wind instrument, widely played in the folk music of Romania and, especially, Hungary. It resembles a wooden soprano saxophone, but its conical bore is narrower.
The tárogató was originally a shawm (a loud double-reed instrument). At the end of the 19th century W. Joseph Schunda of Budapest gave it a saxophone mouthpiece (making it a single-reed instrument) and fitted it with a system of keys.
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