Talk:Cromorne

Cromorne and Crumhorn
Sorry about the lack of references. I was very new to Wikipedia when I created this article, but I do hope to return and at least make a good list of sources at some point. I have also been meaning to add a discography list to the page. There are only two recordings I know of that have a bass cromorne in them, and I own both. The instrument used in those recordings was built quite recently, patterned after illustrations and the surviving "contrabass oboes" from the time that were probably cromornes, possibly with modifications...

The French Wikipedia page on Cromorne clearly shows that Cromorne and Crumhorn are the same thing, and that Tournebout also means the same.Johnrotter (talk) 17:40, 16 November 2009 (UTC)


 * That is likely because in modern French they do indeed appear to mean the same thing. However, the research of Bruce Haynes, Marc Ecochard (see http://www.grandhautbois-flutes.com/), and others indicate that this was not always true, and wasn't true in the 17th century at least.  I'll admit it is confusing and especially with regards to the organ stop--what instrument exactly was/is/are they meant to imitate?  However, in Haynes' book The Eloquent Oboe he reproduces a technical drawing from a French encyclopedia, I believe, showing an instrument that looks like a bass/contrabass oboe but labeled "cromorne."  It was published long after the extinction of the crumhorn.  I'll probably be revisiting music of that period again and maybe will be able to post that image, as it has got to be in the public domain...  the_paccagnellan (talk) 10:57, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

article not actually about cromorne
Article is supposedly about the cromorne, but the main body of it, the first paragraph, is about the crumhorn (which already has it's own article) the second paragraph is about the hecklephone, and what influenced it (it is made unclear what "these instruments" is supposed to mean in that context) only the _first_ sentence of the lead-in text describes the actual topic of article, rest of it is again about the "crumhorn". --CatCat (talk) 11:54, 10 April 2017 (UTC)