Word: krummhorn
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...RENAISSANCE BAND (Decca) contains pictures and demonstrations of archaic instruments such as the sackbut, the shawm and the krummhorn, which are used to play dances by Michael Praetorious, madrigals by Orlando di Lasso, and a solemn "battle symphony" by Heinrich Isaac probably performed during a play by Lorenzo the Magnificent (Leonardo da Vinci is supposed to have composed a similar work). Recorded by the New York Pro Musica under the direction of its founder, the late Noah Greenberg...
...firm of Hubbard and Dowd. Miss Davidoff played both the 'cello and its quite different predecessor, the viola da gamba. Mr. Senturia, a first-rate oboist, also played on several sizes of recorder; and, in three pieces, he provided the chief novelty of the evening by performing on a krummhorn--a long obsolete, J-shaped woodwind with a light, buzzing tone...
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