Tárogató

Tárogató Hung. woodwind instr., originally a modified Eastern shawm, today resembling a soprano saxophone. Old and new versions have a wooden body and conical bore in common. The older type was played with double reed and pirouette and had an ornamental body without fingerholes, or a carved body and trumpet-like bell, or a straight body with flat bronze bell; the last 2 had variable numbers of fingerholes. The oldest type, that without fingerholes, is traceable to the 13th c. According to…