Shalm vs Shawm - What's the difference?
shalm | shawm |
* 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
a mediaeval double reed wind instrument with conical wooden body
:* 1985': There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful '''shawm , and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked. — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked
As nouns the difference between shalm and shawm
is that shalm is obsolete form of shawm while shawm is a mediaeval double reed wind instrument with conical wooden body.shalm
English
Noun
(en noun)- These few words were continually repeated, and to describe the sound, it was as if you heard forest-horns and shalms sounded together from a far distance.