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- For other uses, see Pommer (surname)
Pommer or bombard ( French hautbois; Italian bombardo, bombardone) describes the alto, tenor, bass, and contrabass members of the shawm or Schalmey family, which are similar in function to the modern cor anglais, bass oboe, bassoon, and contrabassoon, although the bassoon family's direct ancestor was the dulcian/ curtal family.
Pommer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Erich Pommer (1889–1966), German-born film producer and executive
- Jānis Pommers, first Latvian Archbishop of the Latvian Orthodox Church
- Markus Pommer (born 1991), German racing driver
- Reinhold Pommer (1935–2014), road and track cyclist from Germany
- William Albert Pommer (1895–1971), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
- William Henry Pommer (1851–1937), American composer
See also may refer to:
- Pommer, early musical instrument
Usage examples of "pommer".
The lute, the trombone, the pommer and the triangle were new acquisitions.
But more probably it was one of the older reed instruments of the oboe family, the pommer or possibly a schalmei.
Bismarck, the Hohenzollern emperors and President Hindenburg than this singular Austrian of peasant stock who was born at half past six on the evening of April 20, 1889, in the Gasthof zum Pommer, a modest inn in the town of Braunau am Inn, across the border from Bavaria.
Sally Matthews has been running a meth lab in her house, the old Pommer place up Tombstone Canyon.
Adolfus Schickelgruber, son of an illegitmate father, in the Hotel zum Pommer in Braunau, Austria, at half past six in the evening of April 20,1889.
The Company had marched to the turn of the road ere Sir Nigel Loring rode out from the gateway, mounted on Pommers, his great black war-horse, whose ponderous footfall on the wooden drawbridge echoed loudly from the gloomy arch which spanned it.
Have Pommers ready at mid-day with my sycamore lance, and place my harness on the sumpter mule.
All their lives, the elder Pommers had been movers and shakers in the Presbyterian Church.
Pommers, I would ride to these cavaliers of Navarre and see if there were not some among them who would help me to take this patch from mine eye.