A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Fagotto


​FAGOTTO. The Italian name for the Bassoon, obviously arising from its resemblance to a faggot or bundle of sticks. The Germans have adopted it as Fagott. [See Bassoon.]

[ W. H. S. ]

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