Larigot

Larigot [arigot] (Fr.), 1. word first recorded in 1403 and used until the early 17th c. for a flageolet, originally made of a sheep's thigh bone. Thoinan Arbeau wrote in 1588 that it had a varying number of holes, according to its size, the best having 4 frontal holes and 2 rear. Cotgrave in 1611 translated the word as recorder. In the 16th c. it became part of military music; 2. mutation organ stop of open metal flue pipes, an oct. above the nasard, or a 5th above the doublette, found in Fr…