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Examples of shawm
shawm
This instrument's name is derived from charamela, the Portuguese word for shawm.
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It is a reference to the pastoral music tradition of shepherds playing shawm-like instruments at Christmas.
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The chanter has a double reed similar to a shawm or oboe, and a conical bore with seven finger-holes on the front.
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This name was also used for its predecessor, the shawm, from which the basic form of the hautbois was derived.
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Traditional instruments included alphorn, hammered dulcimer, fife, hurdy-gurdy, rebec, bagpipe, cittern and shawm.
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Double reeds are used on the oboe, oboe d'amore, english horn, bassoon, contrabassoon, sarrusophone, shawm and bagpipes.
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These include long trumpets, frequently made of aluminium and played in pairs or ensembles of up to six, often accompanied by a shawm.
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When he was hired, officials subsequently fired the three native, Florentine shawm players and replaced them all with German speaking musicians.
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Greenberg dressed his players in medieval garb and used original instruments, mostly odd-looking woodwinds with such names as zink, shawm and Rauschpfeife.
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- A medieval oboe
- The shawm was a medieval and Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family made in Europe from the late 13th century until the 17th century. It was developed from the oriental zurna and is the predecessor of the modern oboe. ...
- (Shawms) were a particularly important family of loud double reeds, with related instruments spread across all Asia. Their wide conical bore, large double reed, and seven front finger holes provided them with a loud, reedy tone. ...
- Double reed wood instrument; the oboe is a modern example.
- There were shawms of many sizes at the height of popularity. It was constructed of a long piece of wood and curved metal bell. It is considered to be an early form of oboe.
- A musical instrument resembling an oboe.
- It was one of the most important instruments used in the Medieval times because it could produce sounds outdoors and could reach a huge audience. It is a key-less double reed instrument with holes for fingers and thumb.
- Shawm, cornet, bombarde
