Shawm: alternatives and connections

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a v…

A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms…

The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings.

See Clarinet.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons.

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to…

The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in pl…

A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.

A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.

An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metal…

A player on the hautboy.