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Word: zuffolo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...first director of the Royal College of Music. - And sometimes quaint. Samples: "Charles,? ('Mr. Charles') b. ?, d. ?. Prob. Hungarian 18th-century horn player and clarinettist. He is a shadowy but important figure, since he was the first named performer on the clarinet in the British Isles." "ZUFFOLO. In modern Italian, the name for the tin whistle. [There is] no reason for concluding, as some have done, that [the] zuffolo was a small shawm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Grove | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

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