dulzian

plural dulzians

1. alternativeAlternative form of dulcian.

   His (?)bass chalumeau is made in the form of a dulzian, in one piece with two parallel bores which double back, and with a short bell at the top.

   1992, Harry White, editor, Johann Joseph Fux and the Music of the Austro-Italian Baroque, Scolar Press, →ISBN, page 88

   2 more examples

   The Fleming Denis van Alsloot’s ‘Procession of the Religious Orders from the Town of Antwerp…’, painted in 1616 shows with excellent clarity six musicians playing a trombone, two alto pommers, a discant schalmey, cornetto, and a dulzian played on the left side with the right hand uppermost, the exact opposite to the dulzian’s descendant, the bassoon, which is played the other way round.

   1948, The Monthly Musical Record, page 230

   The aforementioned document states that jugglers, troubadours and minstrels of the 13th and 14th centuries performed on dulzians and shawms, as perfectly distinct genres of instruments, not the same instrument with double nomenclature.

   1998, The Double Reed, page 126