The shawm was a musical instrument of the woodwind family that was played in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Trk 17 Qui latuit.There was also a softer form of shawm which seems to have been popular in the 14th and 15th centuries: the douçaine.
There can even be confusion about the name since the shawm was also known as “hautbois,” which means loud/high-pitched wood (it’s also the word for oboe in French).
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It was usually made from one piece of wood, with a flare at the end (like a trumpet). 167v.
Medieval Instruments Shawm for Sale. 14th-century manuscript illumination (detail) from Boethius, De Arithmetica.
The modern oboe was developed from the shawm.
A double reed woodwind instrument (or aerophone), is an instrument whose sound is produced by the vibrations created by a column of air from the breath of an instrumentalist (flute, trumpet…), a mechanical blower (organ, accordion…) or an air pocket (bagpipes, veuze…).
It was usually made from one piece of wood, with a flare at the end (like a trumpet). The shawm was a musical instrument of the woodwind family that was played in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Categories …family was that of the shawms, which were powerful double-reed instruments.
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47r.Shawm. So the shawm is a loud, high-pitched double-reed instrument with a large, flared bell.
The shawm is a loud double-reed instrument which is the ancestor of the oboe.
The late 15th-century theorist Johannes Tinctoris tells us that, compared to the regular shawm, it had a soft tone and limited range, both of which characteristics were probably the result of a cylindrical rather than conical bore.)
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…belonging to the oboe or shawm family.
Gothic Winds.
This is a list of medieval musical instruments as used in European music. Ménéstrels hauts et bas (1985), trk 1a.By the late Middle Ages, the shawm had also developed at least one larger size, called the bombarde, which is distinguishable by its “fontanelle” — a “pepper-shaker” cover of perforated wood for the single key mechanism. Christophorus CHR 77193 (1996).
Cleveland Museum of Art 39.158.Shawm.
Like the modern oboe, the shawm was played by blowing into a double reed.