schallemele
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schalme — schallemele, schalme, muse etc.: see shawm … Useful english dictionary
Shawm — Classification Double reed Related instruments Sorna Rhaita Suona Sopil … Wikipedia
shawm — /shawm/, n. an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe. [1300 50; ME schalme < MF chaume < L calamus stalk, reed < Gk kálamos reed; r. ME schallemele < MF chalemel (see CHALUMEAU)] * * * Double reed … Universalium
shawm — (n.) medieval oboe like instrument, mid 14c., schalmeis (pl.), also schallemele (late 14c.), from O.Fr. chalemie, chalemel, from L.L. calamellus, lit. a small reed, dim. of L. calamus reed, from Gk. kalamos. Mistaken as a plural and trimmed of… … Etymology dictionary
