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  • shakuhachi (end-blown flute)
    wind instrument
    / The Renaissance

    …pictorial sources, are the Italian cornamusa, probably little more than a crumhorn without the nonfunctional curved area, and the dolzaina, appearing much the same as the cornamusa. (The name cornamusa was more often used for a bagpipe.) A loud capped reed was the schryari, made in the three principal sizes.…

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    …pictorial sources, are the Italian cornamusa, probably little more than a crumhorn without the nonfunctional curved area, and the dolzaina, appearing much the same as the cornamusa. (The name cornamusa was more often used for a bagpipe.) A loud capped reed was the schryari, made in the three principal sizes.…

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