cornamuse
Sign in to savethumb|right|100px|Alto Cornamuse in F, made of pear wood (Reconstruction by Dominik Bauer, Saarbrücken) The cornamuse is a double reed instrument dating from the Renaissance period. It is similar to the crumhorn in having a windcap over the reed and cylindrical bore. The only evidence for the cornamuse comes from a description and a few comments by Michael Praetorius in Syntagma musicum II, published in 1619. Since the paragraph by Praetorius is the only clear description of the cornamuse and no period specimen or picture has been found, all reconstructions of the instrument rely on a certain
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thumb|right|100px|Alto Cornamuse in F, made of pear wood (Reconstruction by Dominik Bauer, Saarbrücken) The cornamuse is a double reed instrument dating from the Renaissance period. It is similar to the crumhorn in having a windcap over the reed and cylindrical bore. The only evidence for the cornamuse comes from a description and a few comments by Michael Praetorius in Syntagma musicum II, published in 1619. Since the paragraph by Praetorius is the only clear description of the cornamuse and no period specimen or picture has been found, all reconstructions of the instrument rely on a certain amount of conjecture.
thumb|left|Description of the cornamuse, a Renaissance instrument, by Michael Praetorius