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Definition of Shawm
1. Noun. A medieval oboe.
Definition of Shawm
1. n. A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
Definition of Shawm
1. Noun. a mediaeval double reed wind instrument with conical wooden body ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shawm
1. an early woodwind instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shawm
Literary usage of Shawm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old English Instruments of Music: Their History and Character by Francis William Galpin (1911)
"IT has often been assumed that instruments played with the double reed, of which
the Oboe and its predecessor the shawm are typical examples, ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"HH shawm, a wind instrument of the oboe type, with a double reed but a larger
conical bore and a wide bell. The name is generally said to be a corruption of ..."
3. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1915)
"The next Exeter minstrel carries a shawm (plate x, no. 10),1 a wooden wind
instrument in which the sound was produced by the vibration of a double reed in ..."
4. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1850)
"Moslem arrived at shawm, with his two young sons, and was so well received that
he sent in haste to Hosein to set off at once to the capital, as multitudes ..."
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