Rackett
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The rackett, raggett, cervelas, or sausage bassoon is a Renaissance-era double reed wind instrument, introduced late in the sixteenth century and already superseded by bassoons at the end of the seven
Baroque rackett: outside (left) and inside (right)
Reproduction of a Baroque rackett, manufactured by Moeck Musikinstrumente + Verlag
Mouthpiece (woodwind)
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The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. Single-reed instruments, capped double-reed instruments, and fipple flutes have mou
Rackett
…Museum in Leipzig, and two are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Renaissance racketts surround the reed with an openwork cylindrical pirouette; Baroque ones are closed-in, with a bocal. The baroque rackett (developed by the Nuremberg maker Johann Christoph Denner) combined the folded bore…
Soprano saxophone mouthpiece
A clarinet mouthpiece set up to play with the reed held in place with the ligature
The interior chamber of a clarinet mouthpiece showing the straight side walls
Pirouette from a ciaramella