My friend Kate, despite being a hard-rockin' bass player in a kick-ass girl group, is also a part-time medieval music enthusiast: I've been looking some stuff up about crumhorns and related instruments, for kicks, and found these instructions on how to make your own cornemuse, like the crumhorn in the picture, but straight in only one and a half hours, and using a fizzy pop drink straw as the reed. From Wordnik.com. [How to: Build medieval instruments out of PVC pipe] Reference
The Baltimore Consort brought a wide variety of ancient fiddles and winds, including a crumhorn, into the studio. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
But he said he also drew on his own experience with wind instruments: he plays the recorder, the oboe and the crumhorn. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
There were violas and recorders of various shapes and sizes, plus a lute, a cittern and a curvy wind instrument called a crumhorn. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
He has composed the medieval jazz that will be performed on instruments including cornettos (trumpets), sackbut (trombone), crumhorn (woodwind), shawm (bassoon), oud (lute) and nakers (drums). From Wordnik.com. [Sounds of medieval jazz set to ring out] Reference
Both featured a crumhorn. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
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