shawm
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shawm
1300–50; Middle English schalme < Middle French chaume < Latin calamus stalk, reed < Greek kálamos reed; replacing Middle English schallemele < Middle French chalemel ( see chalumeau)
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, fumed G.B.S., there was no such word as "shawm."
From Time Magazine Archive
One special find: a shawm, the 16th century forerunner of the oboe.
From Time Magazine Archive
A fascinating col lection of sacred and profane music by nine little-known Italian composers of the 16th and early 17th centuries, performed on such authentic instruments as sackbut, recorder and shawm.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shawm was the earliest one of its kind ever discovered and had an extra hole for the thumb, giving it a wider musical range than later models.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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