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2018-12-07 , 17:52
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Well yes here one seems to assume that the musical instrument known as Fagotti in Finnish would translitterate as Fagot in english... not so!
It's known as Bassoon in those englishy-speaking corners of da globe
Which is a rather odd choice. "Bassoon" has "bass" in it and this instrument is far from "bass".
In fact it is called a "fagot", "fagott" or a variation on the theme in pretty much every language except English.
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