tarogato
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See also: tárogató
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Hungarian tárogató.
Noun
tarogato (plural tarogatos)
- (music) a reed instrument originating from Hungary
- 1994 May 6, John Corbett, “Head Music”, in Chicago Reader:
- Saturday night, with percussionist Gregg Bendian and bassist William Parker, he played a nearly model free-jazz gig: starting at absolute Mount Kilimanjaro intensity, two sets dipped and rose with the jagged topography of peaks and valleys, Brotzmann switching between tenor (his main ax), E-flat clarinet, alto sax, and tarogato (a wooden instrument about the size and shape of a soprano sax with a nasal, double-reedish sound).
