What's the difference between bombardon and shawm?
Bombardon
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
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Shawm
Definition:
(n.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
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(1) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .