Crumhorn

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several related simple woodwind instruments having a bent horn

    "[Yann] LeCun grew up constructing model aeroplanes and playing woodwind instruments such as the recorder and the crumhorn, a “weird Renaissance instrument”, which he played in a Renaissance dance music band."

  2. 2
    a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) wordnet

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cromornekrummhornkrummhorn

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"[Yann] LeCun grew up constructing model aeroplanes and playing woodwind instruments such as the recorder and the crumhorn, a “weird Renaissance instrument”, which he played in a Renaissance dance music band."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Krum(m)horn (literally “bent horn”).

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