krummhorn Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)
    cromorne; crumhorn.

WordNet

Krumm"horn`, Krum"horn` noun (Also<
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Etymology
G. krummhorn horn.
Definitions
  1. (Mus.) (a) A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.) (b) A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called cremona.

Webster 1913