A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Chalumeau

CHALUMEAU. Supposed to have been an old instrument of the clarinet or oboe type, now entirely disused. The name occurs in the scores of Gluck's operas.

The word is also used for the lowest register of the Clarinet. [ Clarinet.]

[ W. H. S. ]

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