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Modern crumhorns with keys, alto crumhorn in F, bass crumhorn in F Double-reed of an alto crumhorn in F. The crumhorn is a double reed instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance period. In modern times, particularly since the 1960s, there has been a revival of interest in early music, and crumhorns are being ...
Cromorne (French baroque, different from the crumhorn) Contra Forte; Duduk (Armenia) Dulcian; Dulzaina (Spain) Heckelphone. Piccolo heckelphone; Hichiriki (Japan) Kèn bầu (Vietnam) Mizmar (Arabic nations) Nadaswaram; Oboe. Piccolo oboe; Oboe d'amore; Cor anglais (i.e. English horn) Oboe da caccia; Bass oboe; Contrabass oboe
By contrast, the crumhorn (also known by names including crum horn, crumm horn, Krummhorn, Krummpfeife, Kumbhorn, cornamuto torto, and piva torto) is a capped double-reed instrument usually shaped like a letter "J" and possessing a rather small melodic range spanning a ninth (i.e. just over an octave) unless extended downward by keys or by the technique of underblowing, which increases the ...
Capped double-reed instruments, on the other hand, have the double reed covered by a cap; the player blows through a hole in this cap that then directs the air through the reeds. This family includes the crumhorn. A piper playing the bagpipes in Newport, Rhode Island
Dr Crumhorn holds Penfold captive and has created a robot duplicate of him (which is far more efficient than the original). At the push of a button, it transforms into a giant machine intent on destroying Danger Mouse and his pillar box. Meanwhile, envious of Crumhorn's own plan, Greenback has Stiletto disguised as Penfold in costume in his ...
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It is similar to the crumhorn in having a windcap over the reed and cylindrical bore. The only evidence for the cornamuse comes from a description and a few comments by Michael Praetorius in Syntagma musicum II, published in 1619. Since the paragraph by Praetorius is the only clear description of the cornamuse and no period specimen or picture ...
Crumhorn Lake is a lake located northeast of the hamlet of Portlandville in the Town of Milford in Otsego County, New York. References This page was last ...