Talk:Catalan shawm

Source and additional information
This information was learned mostly from Woodwind Instruments and Their History, a book by Anthony Baines. It is rightfully considered one of the best works on woodwind instruments. It was originally written in the forties and the copyright was (as far as I know) last renewed in the nineties. The information in this article is merely a review and summary of Baines's information on shawms in general and the tiple and tenora in particular. The book is far more thorough and complete, and offers a wealth of information on other instruments as well. I wrote this article because I couldn't find any information on Catalan shawms on this website and almost none on the Internet in general. Baines's book seems to be the only source, and is not very widely available. Instrumentguy

Merge with Shawm
Given that only about five sentences here refer specifically to Catalan shawms (of which more than half needs rewriting) and the rest is about shawms in general, it would make sense to merge this article into Shawm. 24.58.33.52 (talk) 01:54, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll dispute, there is some Catalan shawm coverage on the Catalan pages, and an entire article on a specific shawm variant. I could see merging this current article into a future Gralla (instrument article, but I think it better to keep the Catalan shawms in their specific Catalan tree so that their history and use may be discussed.  Otherwise the article Shawm will had 40 different categories for all the European cultures that had some form of primitive oboe.

MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:47, 26 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Do not merge; it's a specific variant with its own tradition and ensemble music. Badagnani (talk) 08:45, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Concur with do not merge. The large variety of shawm repertorites and traditions merit individual articles. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:09, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

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