Crumhorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The crumhorn is a musical instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance period. In modern times, there has been a revival of interest in Early Music, and crumhorns are...
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The history of the Crumhorn ... click image for sound of bass crumhorn; (194kb wav); or here for the same in mp3 ... The name first occurs in 1489 as an organ stop.The crumhorn, used in the 14th to17th centuries in Europe, is wooden, with a cylindrical bore. The crumhorn is the earliest and most common instrument of the reed...
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www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/crumhorn.htm
www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/crumhorn.htm
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www.crumhorn.com/
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The crumhorn, with its odd umbrella handle shape, first appeared from around 1400 onwards, as part of a larger family of renaissance "windcap" instruments. ... King Henry VIII was a skilled crumhorn player and had his own collection of the instruments. The photograph above shows soprano, alto and tenor crumhorns.
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crumhorn. Like the crumhorn, it has a double reed enclosed inside the windcap, but it does not have the crumhorn's distinctive "crook" shape. It also, unusually, has a "stopped end" - the bore or windway is blocked at the end and the sound can only escape through the sound holes drilled in the flare at the end.
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www.earlymusic.i12.com/general/prod_2.htm
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The Crumhorn is an odd instrument. It was always considered odd in England, and never really caught on, although it was more popular in the rest of Europe, particularly in Germany. Nicholas Lander (see the Links page) reckons that crumhorns existed from the 14th to 18th centuries, and I won't argue.
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www.diabolus.org/guide/crumhorn.htm
www.diabolus.org/guide/crumhorn.htm
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Preamble: The crumhorn has nothing to do with the brass-wind instrument horn (except that's a wind instrument too).; The crumhorn is a double-reed wood-wind instrument with a cylindrical bored curved tube that's finished with a conical bore.
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www.sackpfeyffer-zu-linden.de/crumhorn.html
www.sackpfeyffer-zu-linden.de/crumhorn.html
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Thus, the crumhorn was sounded by blowing into a mouthpiece, not by placing the lips directly on the reeds. The crumhorn is curved and shaped like the letter "J" with finger holes similar to those of a recorder.
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www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textc/Crumhorn.html
www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textc/Crumhorn.html
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