Crumhorn (Noun)
Meaning
A Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn).
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The ensemble played period-accurate instruments, including a lute, a recorder, and a crumhorn.
- As she examined the collection, the historian was delighted to discover a well-preserved Renaissance-era crumhorn.
- With a wobbly start, the student of historical woodwinds successfully blew a faint but pleasant note from her new crumhorn.
- Because the musician's face turned red and purple when she blew her crumhorn, it often seemed more amusing than dignified.
- It was at this gathering that Elizabeth saw an assortment of eccentric folk dance through a hawthorn maze playing whistles and a small child wail beautifully into an archaic wood crumhorn.