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Definition of Shawms

Shawm
Shawm Shawm, n. [OE. shalmie, OF. chalemie; cf. F. chalumeau shawm, chaume haulm, stalk; all fr. L. calamus a reed, reed pipe. See Haulm, and cf. Calumet.] (Mus.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] --Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. --Drayton.

Meaning of Shawms from wikipedia

- five-part music could be pla**** by a consort consisting entirely of shawms. All later shawms (excepting the smallest) have at least one key allowing a downward...
- These shawms are usually used with other instruments to accompany the traditional Catalan circle dance, the Sardana. Other Catalan folk shawms are the...
- bouzouki, shawms Falk Irmenfried von Hasen-Mümmelstein - bagpipes, vocals, hurdy-gurdy, shawms El Silbador (since 2006) - bagpipes, shawms, smallpipes...
- with the choir. Its uses would have included playing dance music with the shawms and sackbuts of the city watch, chamber music, and the grand polychoral...
- Mary Rose shawm, an early predecessor to the oboe, instrument historians had been puzzled by references to "still shawms", or "soft" shawms, that were...
- cor anglais (also called English horn), and b****oon, and many types of shawms throughout the world. Capped double-reed instruments, on the other hand...
- Academic Publishers. p. 133. ISBN 1402013248. Brown, David. Oriental Oboes and Shawms Archived 2017-06-16 at the Wayback Machine larkinam.com Mizmar. Dominik...
- the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, which typically consisted of shawms and slide trumpets or sackbuts. Waits is the British equivalent. These were...
- Mizmar, a shawm similar to the shehnai Nadaswaram, a similar South Indian instrument Reed instrument, a type of woodwind instrument Shawm, a type of...
- and various kinds of drums. Woodwind instruments included the double-reed shawm (an early member of the oboe family), the reed pipe, the bagpipe, the transverse...