Fagot

Fagot [It. fagotto], Engl., Fr., and Ger.: curtal; syn. in 16th-c. France of basson, in Germany of Dulzian. The term was also used ca. 1700 in England (i.a., by Talbot). In Germany the word becomes Fagott (bassoon). A chest of alte schlechte fagati (old plain fagati) is mentioned in a Graz inventory of 1577.