What is "cromorne"

n. a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) [syn: krummhorn, crumhorn]

Cromorne is a French woodwind reed instrument of uncertain identity, used in the early Baroque period in French court music. The name is sometimes confused with the similar-sounding name crumhorn, a musical woodwind instrument probably of different design, called "tournebout" by French theorists in the 17th century (; ).