shawm

• This track has an eclectic mix of instruments that creates a brooding, almost dangerous, sound with its use of violins, guitars, guitar synthesizer, acoustic bass, cello, tabla, shawm and multiple forms of percussion. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
• Multi-instrumentalist Tom Zajac again dazzled by playing on any number of sound devices, from bagpipes to harp to drums to flutes and recorders and even a shawm. —  Ionarts
• Andrew Watts (shawm, recorder), Martin Pope (sackbut, recorder), Timothy Davies (gittern, lute) —  AvaxHome RSS:
• It was formerly more like the reed of the shawm, an instrument from which the oboe has been derived; and that of the present bassoon. —  Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
• It was evolved in the sixteenth century from the pommers and bombards: the tenors and basses of the shawm or oboe family. —  Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

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