schalmey

plural schalmeys

1. alternativeAlternative form of schalmei.

   Descended from the mediaeval schalmeys and pommers, the bassoon first made its appearance in the orchestra in 1659, and it has been a regular constituent of it since the time of Handel.

   1916, Everything Known in Music: A Souvenir of the New Home of the World’s Foremost Music House, with a Brief Comment on the Instruments of the Orchestra, Lyon & Healy, page 18

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   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

   Richard Haka, the Dutch instrument maker who flourished in the last four decades of the seventeenth century, made both hautboys and baroque schalmeys, and in 1695 James Talbot describes English waits (as wide-bore shawms), Deutsche (baroque) schalmeys, and French hautbois.

   2015, “Use of the Hautboy and Transitional Shawms in the Last Three Decades of the Seventeenth Century: Organological Background”, in Peter Hedrick, editor, An Early Hautboy Solo Matrix: Solos for the Hautboy before 1710 based on a Symphonia/Sonata by Johann Christoph Pez that Demonstrates a Performance Practice of Adaptation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, part I (Introduction), page 5