A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Couac

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From volume 1 of the work.

1503954A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — CouacGeorge Grove

COUAC (French for 'quack'), a sudden horrible noise to which any clarinet is liable when the reed is out of order and the wind not quite under control. Called also 'the goose.' (See a good story in Spohr, Selbstbiographie, i. 167.)