cromorne
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cromorne
1685–95; < French, alteration of German Krumhorn; see crumhorn
Example Sentences
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As they drew nearer, our hero noticed a young woman in the front rank who was playing folk-songs on a cromorne with a double-reed mouth-piece enclosed in an air-reservoir.
From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.
E. van der Straeten12 mentions a key belonging to a large cromorne bearing the date 1537, of which he gives a large drawing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
In 1729 one of the cromorne players sold his appointment for 4000 francs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
A cromorne appears in a musical scene with a trumpet in Hermann Finck’s Practica Musica.13 The “Platerspil,” of which Virdung gives a drawing, is only a kind of cromorne.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
With the ordinary boring of eight lateral holes the cromorne possesses a limited compass of a ninth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
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