LL-L "Etymology" 2009.08.27 (03) [EN]

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From: Marcus Buck <list at marcusbuck.org>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2009.08.27 (01) [EN]

From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz <
mailto:wes.parish at paradise.net.nz <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>>>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology"
I've just been investigating various ancient European musical instruments
such
as the shawm and the crumhorn, a cousin of which - the Scottish bagpipe
chanter - I learnt to play at High School, and I came across an instrument,
an ancestor it may be, of the bassoon, rejoicing in the name of kortholt -
short wood.
FWIW, there is a similar instrument, or maybe a development of it, rejoicing
in the names of curtal and dulcian, which did develop into the bassoon.
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kortholt refers to High German
with "The name comes from the German kurz (becoming kort) meaning short and
holz (becoming holt) meaning wood."  But I'm thinking that it looks too
Lowlandish for that, and is probably either Dutch or Low Saxon in origin.
What do people think?  (And by the bye, pop on over and take a look at:
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/index.html  Share and Enjoy! ;)
Wesley Parish
ng from the references that can be found with Google Books, knowledge of the
instrument is almost completely based on a 1619 book of Michael Praetorius
who named the three names "Kortholt", "kort instrument" and "kurzpfeiff" in
it. As Praetorius was a German, born in the Middle German areas bordering
the Saxon areas and spent much of his professional life in Eastfalia, which
at his time had already taken over High German as a literary language, but
cultural life was still fully Saxon. So "Kortholt" and "kort instrument" are
abviously of Low Saxon origin. I will edit the Wikipedia articles.
Marcus Buck

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