Crumhorn

Definition: Crumhorn

Crumhorn

Noun

1. A Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn).

Specialty Definition: Crumhorn

The crumhorn is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. It was popular in the Renaissance period. In the 20th century, there was a revival of interest in Early Music and people started to play crumhorns again.

The crumhorn is a capped reed instrument. Its construction is similar to that of the chanter of a bagpipes. A double reed is mounted inside a chamber at one end of a long pipe. Blowing into the chamber produces a musical note. The pitch of the note can be varied by opening or closing finger holes along the length of the pipe. One unusual feature of the crumhorn is its shape; the end is bent upwards in a curve, so that the instrument resembles a banana, or more prosaically, the letter J.

Crumhorns sound something like a trumpet, something like an oboe and somthing like a duck. They have a limited range, usually an octave and one note, because it is not possible to get the reed to overblow at higher harmonics, since the reed is not held in the mouth. As a result, music for crumhorns is usually played by a group of instruments of different sizes and hence at different pitches. Such a group is known as a consort of crumhorns.

Commercial Usage: Crumhorn

Domain	Title
Books	The crumhorn and other Renaissance windcap instruments : a contribution to Renaissance organology (reference) The Crumhorn, Its History, Design, Repertory, and Technique: Studies in Musicology, No. 66 (reference) (more book examples)

Music	At the Sign of the Crumhorn (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crumhorn

Derivations & Misspellings: Crumhorn

Derivations
	Words beginning with "crumhorn": crumhorns. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Crumhorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cramphorn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Crumhorn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-h-m-n-o-r-r-u"
	-3 letters: churn, churr, cornu, cruor, humor, mohur, mouch, mourn, mucor, mucro, munch, rumor.
	-4 letters: chon, chum, corm, corn, curn, curr, horn, hour, morn, much, muon, murr, norm, ouch, unco.
	-5 letters: con, cor, cum, cur, hon, hum, hun, mho, moc, mon, mor, mun, noh, nom, nor, ohm, orc, our, rho, roc, rom, rum, run, urn.
	Words containing the letters "c-h-m-n-o-r-r-u"
	+1 letter: crumhorns.
	+4 letters: countermarch.
	+5 letters: perichondrium, thermonuclear.
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