RACKETT

also called Ranket (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 bored with six or seven extremely narrow channels connected in a series and emerging at the instrument top. The resulting long bore was cylindrical throughout. Finger holes were provided. The sound was reedy, low-pitched, and muffled. The compass was a 12th.