Instantly recognizable, the crumhorn (also known as the krummhorn or cromorne) was made out of wood – usually boxwood – that had been bent rather than carved. The bell turned dramatically upwards like a hook, and the narrow cylindrical body flared only slightly, making the instrument lower in pitch than one with a conical bore of the same ...
The crumhorn is a double-reed wind-cap instrument. This means that the two reeds are enclosed in a rigid cap. The player blows through a hole in one end of the cap, which makes the reed vibrate unimpeded, since there is no direct contact with the lips. The crumhorn is a cylindrically bored instrument, normally made of maple with ...
the contrabassoon, however, which can be heard in Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749) and Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770–1827) Fidelio (1805). Introduction | Woodwind Instruments Instruments | Crumhorn | Woodwind ...
family was developed like this, consisting of treble, tenor and bass viol, as were the violin family, the recorder family, the lute family and the crumhorn family. Cornetts, shawms, trombones and flutes also came in different sizes. Besides consort instruments, there were a few others that could be used as self-contained solo instruments. The ...
as a bass viol or baroque cello) accompanies two melodic instruments such as Baroque violins or flutes. Instruments as diverse as the shawm, tabor, fiddle, cittern, crumhorn, serpent and hurdy-gurdy have been very successfully resurrected. Current performing ensembles include the Baroque brass group, His Majestys Sagbuts and Cornetts, and the viol consort Fretwork. Other ...
the name normally used in England for both dulcian and bassoon until the modern term was adopted in the eighteenth century. Styles & Forms | Renaissance | Classical Instruments | Crumhorn | Renaissance | Classical ...
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