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Claire van Kampen provides abundant, very fine music on sackbuts and shawms.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2012

To hear their early recordings in particular is to hear the timbres of the shawms, sackbuts and hurdy-gurdies of early instrumental music, rendered vocally.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2011

And as I stood hearkening, dulcimers, haut-boys, and shawms, And violoncellos, and a three-stringed double-bass, Joined in, and were intermixed with a singing of psalms; And I looked over at the dead men's dwelling-place.

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas

A joyous sound of shawms and silver rebecks interrupted his discourse.

From Sintram and His Companions by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de

"You might have a sacred concert, and Mr. Hicks could represent the shawms and cymbals with his flute."

From The Lady of the Aroostook by Howells, William Dean