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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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3RACKET. This beautiful instrument is constructed in the form of an ivory cylinder, and it is played by means of a rather large double reed placed within a pirouette. The bore is of extremely small diameter and is cylindrical throughout. The instrument, not including the reed and crook, measures only 4 3/4 inches in length; with reed and crook, nine inches; and it is two inches in diameter. The bore consists of nine channels, parallel to each other, and which communicate so as to form a single length of wind-passage. The finger-holes open out on to the circumference of the cylinder, and are bored obliquely, as in the bassoon. The front of the instrument is shown in Plate IX. fig. B. There are three finger-holes for the left hand; and three, with an additional hole for the little finger, for the right hand. There are three holes at the back: one for the thumb of the left hand, and two for that of the right hand, one being covered by the first joint, the other by the ball, of the thumb. The vent, for there is no bell, is also at the back. The compass descends to
5This instrument is an exact reproduction of one in the Ambrosian Sammlung at Vienna, and which formerly belonged to the private band of the Emperor Maximilien I.
7Lent by the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels.
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