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How to use shawm in a sentence

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Ironically, the lute, shawm and nakers had all been recently imported to Europe from the Middle East.
The shawm, baroque oboe, baroque bassoon and dulcian can overblow without the use of a thumbhole.
Their difference is the shawm has only one bore, the dulcian has two and it is folded at the bottom.
However, I shall not digress via the ugab and the shawm, tempted as I might be.
As the wrestling takes place, the drum and shawm bands play the traditional repertoire of the festival.
The shawm has several familiar modern descendants: the contemporary oboe, the modern clarinet the bassoon and the saxophone.
The shawm survived somewhat longer in the West and remained important in the East.
The ancient double reed was used in the Greek aulos and its precursors and later in the shawm and its relatives, which were played from Mediterranean lands eastward to China.
Reproductions of both fiddles have been made, though less is known of their design than the shawm since the neck and strings were missing.
This miniature depicts a shepherd improvising a melody on his shawm.
In order to make your stay even more enjoyable we can provide shawm, zither, gipsy, salon or popular music, as well as folk dance programs and dance performances upon request.
Woodwind instruments included the double reed shawm, the reed pipe, the bagpipe, the transverse flute and the recorder.
Some instruments from previous eras fell into disuse, such as the shawm and the wooden cornet.
Instruments, such as the vielle, harp, psaltery, flute, shawm, bagpipe, and drums were all used during the Middle Ages to accompany dances and singing.
As always, the vocal ensemble Alamire is in excellent form, though the contributions from the cornet, shawm, and sackbut ensemble Quintessential are all too few and brief.
The still shawm disappeared from the musical scene some time in the 16th century, and the instrument found on the Mary Rose is the only surviving example.
Examples from Classical Literature
In the second wagon will follow the musicians, the players upon the drum, the fife, and the shawm.
The shawm was silent, the herdsman bent questioningly over the wall and Kurwenal made answer.
A figure is given of a goat playing on a shawm from a carving of the twelfth century at Canterbury.
The name is believed to be derived from calamaula, a reed-pipe, which was corrupted to chalem-elle and then to shawm.
The shawm rang out yearningly beneath the pale expanse of an unsympathetic heaven.
The older Eben piece Ordo modalis of 1964 is based tonally on the inspiration of the ancient harp and shawm but in terms of rhythm draws on the early Baroque dance.
It becomes clear that the traveling blind bards and shawm bands are not just entertainment but an integral part of life-cycle and seasonal rituals.
But some, such as the shawm, curtal, crumhorn and lute, seem more exotic.
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