shawm

plural shawms

1. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.

   There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.

   1985 September 1, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson & Co., →ISBN

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   And all the field is thick with companies Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes And gather honey of the yellow fruits Between the branches waxen soft and wide

   1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “St. Dorothy”, in Poems and Ballads, London: J. C. Hotten, page 288

   Synonyms: zurna