Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
shawm . - noun In clarinet music, same as
chalumeau , 2. - noun In the bagpipe, same as
chanter , 5. - noun In organ-building, a soft reed-stop. Also called a musette.
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Examples
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The schalmei is mentioned as far back as Sebastian Virdung's "Musica getuscht und ausgezogen" (1511).
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The instruments are viols and wooden wind instruments of the schalmei family.
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The schalmei was developed into a whole family, enumerated by Prætorius in the work already mentioned.
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But more probably it was one of the older reed instruments of the oboe family, the pommer or possibly a schalmei.
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This is a schalmei sometimes referred to as a signal or Martin trumpet.
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The highest of these, the little schalmei, was seldom used, but the "soprano schalmei is the primitive type of the modern oboe." [
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November 25, 2010