"shawm" was a musical instrument resembling the clarinet. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
I think he also plays the crummhorn, or maybe the shawm. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
At the Jolly Man, the minstrel sang and played his lute and shawm. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
The piercing warbles from a reed shawm intermittently cut through the night. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
It was evolved in the sixteenth century from the pommers and bombards: the tenors and basses of the shawm or oboe family. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
Wherever Kahlan went, she could hear pipes and drums, or the piercing notes of a shawm, or the melodic chords of strings. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Leave Me] Reference
At times the shawm went silent, and then the minstrel sang ballads whose words were unintelligible because of the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
Musicians entertained from the gallery above the kings, offering delicate love songs and lively tunes on harp, lute, and shawm. From Wordnik.com. [The Tudors: King Takes Queen] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
A sackbut is a brass horn that looks alot like a trombone with a slightly smaller bell, and a shawm is a double reed instrument that is a predecessor to the oboe. From Wordnik.com. [Calling all Brits - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
We must also place among double-reed instruments the various bagpipes, cornemuses, and musettes, which are shawm or oboe instruments with reservoirs of air, and furnished with drones inclosing single reeds. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
I actually wanted to use shawm in the bridging piece, but I don't seem to have one easily to hand -- then again, my organization being what it is, I may have half a dozen sampled shawms and just be clueless. From Wordnik.com. [Moving right along] Reference
I heard the dusty, sonorous songs of the reed shawm, the small oboe and the reed dulcian, and other small reed organs played by mouth, and then the more ringing tone of the brass sackbut horn, and perhaps even the light singing of the hammers striking the taut strings of the dulcimer. From Wordnik.com. [Vittorio, The Vampire]
He watched her coming up the road, his finger tapping against his bent knee as the shawm played a bouncy tune Fitch knew, called "Round the Well and Back," about a man chasing a woman he loved, but who always ignored him. the man finally had enough and chased her in the song until he caught her. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
The comet, flute, and shawm t, assisting as they sing. From Wordnik.com. [Titus and Berenice, a tragedy, acted at the Duke's theatre. With a farce called the Cheats of Scapin] Reference
It came to Europe, and the name changed to shawm, the Medieval predecessor of the oboe. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
Make ready there, you gut-scrapers, you shawm-shavers; I'll put your lungs in play for you presently. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
The 'beano' comes very near to this land -- so near that across its marches you may hear the sackbut and shawm from the breaks. From Wordnik.com. [In Homespun] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Ionarts] Reference
The affined colonic anchorage alaska hotels shawm me to virilization you guys buffalofish in with any and all prominently housefather disaccharidase you can entoprocta of. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Even the trumpet and shawm of her winds, the stately march of her clouds, and the torrent-rush of her waters, were to them poor facts, no vaguest embodiment of truths eternal. From Wordnik.com. [What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2] Reference
Solemn and sonorous enough it all is, and not unmusical, but it lacks its natural accompaniment of shawm and sackbut and the wind-swept harp in the willows by the waters of Babylon. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909] 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
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. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
BOSTON - At an early-music festival, you expect to see antique instruments: pegless cellos, gambas with ornate scrolls, wooden recorders and tranverse flutes of every size, and perhaps an occasional shawm, rebec or vielle. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"the heathen have dealt wonderfully with us ---- let us raise up our voices in a psalm -- let us give thanks on the shawm and on the psaltery-on the harp and on the huggab-on the cythern and on the sackbut!". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5] Reference
"It is a fatted calf from the pastures of Bashan" — said the Pharisee — "the heathen have dealt wonderfully with us — let us raise up our voices in a psalm — let us give thanks on the shawm and on the psaltery — on the harp and on the huggab — on the cythern and on the sackbut.". From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference
With timbrel, shawm and choir. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
He hath played music sweet as shawm-playing. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Let lute, let shawm, with sound of sweet delight. From Wordnik.com. [In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)] Reference
It proceeds from three pipers, one of whom plays an old/shawm/, another a/ sackbut/, and the third a/ pommer/, or oboe. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference
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