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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 48 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POMMER , or BoalBARD (Fr. hautbois; Ital. bombardo, bombardone), the See also:

alto, See also:tenor and basses of the See also:shawm or Schalmey See also:family, and the forerunners respectively of the See also:cor-anglais, See also:bassoon or fagotto, and See also:double bassoon or See also:contrafagotto. The See also:main difference to the casual observer between the See also:medieval See also:instruments and those of our See also:orchestra which were evolved from them would be one of See also:size. In the Pommers no See also:attempt had been made to See also:bend the See also:tube, and its length, equal to that of an open See also:organ See also:pipe of the same See also:pitch, was outstretched in all its unwieldiness in an oblique position in front of the performer. The See also:great contrabass Pommer was 9 ft. See also:long without the crook and See also:reed, which, however, were See also:bent downwards. It had five open fingerholes and five keys working inside a perforated See also:case; in See also:order to bring the holes within reach of the See also:finger, they were cut obliquely through the tube. The See also:compass extended See also:POMONA from F below 8 ft. C to E or F in the See also:bass stave, two octaves in all. The other members of the family were the bass Pommer, from 8 ft. C to See also:middle C, corresponding to the See also:modern bassoon or fagotto; the tenor or See also:basset Pommer, a fifth higher in pitch; the alto pommer or nicolo, a See also:fourth or a fifth above the tenor; and the high alto, or See also:Klein Alt Pommer, an See also:octave higher than the tenor, corresponding approximately to the cor-anglais. For the See also:history of the Pommer family see OsoE and BAssoon. (K.

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