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Catalan Shawm - Region, Types, and Uses
... The types of shawm commonly used in Catalonia are the tible (, Catalan for "treble") and the tenora (, Catalan for "tenor") ... These shawms are usually used with other instruments to accompany the traditional Catalan circle dance, the Sardana ... Other Catalan folk shawms are the tarota the original keyless version of the tible, and the gralla, a short, strident instrument with a steep conical bore ...
Music In The Elizabethan Era - Instruments
... Generally, loud consorts consisted of cornetti, sackbutts, shawms and the higher-pitched recorders and flutes ... The common wind instruments included the shawms, recorders, cornetti, sackbuts (trombones), krumhorns and flutes (which were known as 'piffari'.) The trumpets and piffari were used for the announcement of the ... The shawms, cornetti and sackbutts were used in loud consorts ...
Shawm
... The shawm was a medieval and Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family made in Europe from the 12th century (at the latest) until the 17th century ... The body of the shawm was usually turned from a single piece of wood, and terminated in a flared bell somewhat like that of a trumpet ... Beginning in the 16th century, shawms were made in several sizes, from sopranino to great bass, and four and five-part music could be played by a ...
Mary Rose - Archaeology - Finds - Musical Instruments
... Two fiddles, a bow, a still shawm or doucaine, three three-hole pipes and a tabor drum with a drumstick were found throughout the wreck ... Before the discovery of the Mary Rose shawm, an early predecessor to the oboe, instrument historians had been puzzled by reference to "still shawms", or "soft" shawms ... The still shawm disappeared from the musical scene some time in the 16th century and the Mary Rose example is the only surviving example ...
Saltatio Mortis - Members
... Alea der Bescheidene - vocals, bagpipes, didgeridoo, guitar, shawms Lasterbalk der Lästerliche - drums, davul and other percussion Falk Irmenfried von Hasen-Mümmelstein ...