What's the difference between shawm and zurna?

Shawm


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  • (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 .

Zurna


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