[shawm] 
| an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe. |
| shawm (shôm) n. Any of various early double-reed wind instruments, forerunners of the modern oboe. [Middle English schalme, from Old French chalemie, alteration of chalemel, from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of Latin calamus, reed, from Greek kalamos.] |