buckets

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This Year of Grace was heralded by fanfares, tuckets and sennets such as seldom announce anything less than the birth of a Prince of Wales or the entrance of Lit-tul Lillian Leitzel.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again the tuckets sound—again The dauntless heroes give the rein To their revenge.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

Speak for us, bells—speak for us, shrill-tongued tuckets.

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir

It is perhaps worth noting, that of the seven tuckets in the stage directions, only one, Goneril's, is supposed to be an English one.

From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall)