krummhornn.
/ˈkrʊmhɔːn/, /ˈkrʌmhɔːn/, U.S. /ˈkrʊmˌhɔrn/, /ˈkrəmˌhɔrn/ Music.
a. A wind-instrument of a curved form.
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krummhorn1864
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doppione1953
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Krummhorn, Krumhorn, an instrument of music of the cornet kind, formerly in use.
1883 J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. 186/2 Krumhorn, an old musical instrument of the cornet kind.
1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles iii. 76 There I stand in Eden again, welcomed back By the krumhorns, doppions, sordumes of jolly miners.
1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 July 23/1 That's if you call 14th, 15th and 16th century harpsichords, clavichords, recorders, krum horns, citterns, lutes and oboes up to date.
b. An organ reed-stop of 8 ft. pitch, resembling the clarinet in tone; called also cromorne n., and corruptly cremona n.2
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > reed-stop > specific
regal1555
curtal1582
trumpet1659
cremona1660
cromorne1694
hautboyc1700
horn1722
serpent1730
dulcian1773
zinke1773
trumpet stop1795
musette1825
fagotto1832
oboe1834
trombone1837
physharmonica1838
cornopean1840
ophicleide1842
posaune1843
button regal1852
shawm1852
vox angelica1852
busaun1855
bombardon1856
tuba1858
bombard1876
clarinet1876
rackett1876
tenoroon1876
clarionet1880
krummhorn1880
1880 E. J. Hopkins in Grove Dict. Music II. 74 Krummhorn, Cromorne, Cremona, Clarionet, Corno-di-Bassetto..An Organ Reed Stop of 8 feet size of tone.
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