An alternative spelling of arghool; an Egyptian double-pipe wind instrument.
From Arabic arghūl with variant English spelling. This spelling variation reflects different transliteration conventions for rendering Arabic sounds into Latin script.
The multiple spellings of arghoul/arghool show the challenge of translating non-European music—no single English spelling captures the Arabic pronunciation perfectly, so musicians and scholars use different versions.
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