A bassoon or related double-reed woodwind instrument, particularly in German, Italian, and Eastern European musical traditions.
From German Fagott, from Italian fagotto, derived from fagotto (bassoon). The word came into various European languages through Italian, ultimately from the concept of the instrument's bundled reed construction resembling a bundle of sticks (fagot).
The bassoon is named after bundles of sticks because early reed instruments literally had reeds that looked like tiny bundled sticks—form inspiring nomenclature across multiple languages!
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