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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: Marcus Buck <</font><a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">list@marcusbuck.org</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><br>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2009.08.27 (01) [EN]<br><br>From: Wesley Parish <</font><a href="mailto:wes.parish@paradise.net.nz"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">wes.parish@paradise.net.nz</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <</font><a href="mailto:wes.parish@paradise.net.nz"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">mailto:wes.parish@paradise.net.nz</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></font></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Etymology"</font></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I've just been investigating various ancient European musical instruments such<br>as the shawm and the crumhorn, a cousin of which - the Scottish bagpipe<br>
chanter - I learnt to play at High School, and I came across an instrument,<br>an ancestor it may be, of the bassoon, rejoicing in the name of kortholt -<br>short wood.<br>FWIW, there is a similar instrument, or maybe a development of it, rejoicing<br>
in the names of curtal and dulcian, which did develop into the bassoon.<br>Wikipedia </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kortholt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kortholt</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> refers to High German<br>
with "The name comes from the German kurz (becoming kort) meaning short and<br>holz (becoming holt) meaning wood."Â But I'm thinking that it looks too<br>Lowlandish for that, and is probably either Dutch or Low Saxon in origin.<br>
What do people think? (And by the bye, pop on over and take a look at:<br></font><a href="http://www.essentialvermeer.com/index.html"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.essentialvermeer.com/index.html</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Share and Enjoy! ;)<br>
Wesley Parish</font></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</font></div>
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