curtal in English
adjective
1
shortened, abridged, or curtailed.
A ‘ curtal [shortened] sonnet’ (G.M. Hopkins) consists of a sestet followed by a quatrain and a half-line tailpiece.
noun
1
a dulcian or bassoon of the late 16th to early 18th century.
The result is a programme of genuine old fashioned carols, songs and dances, performed on shawms, sackbut, recorders, flutes, curtals , lutes, guitars, harp, bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy.
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2. The Bassoon underwent far-less-radical changes in the hands of Hotteterre than the oboe.The former curtal was simply built in four sections and lengthened to produce B♭′