释义 |
cha·lu·meau \|shalə|mō\ noun (plural chalu·meaux \-ōz\) Etymology: French, from Late Latin calamellus little reed — more at calumet 1. a. : a medieval wind instrument consisting of an upright tube surmounted by a small tube in which was fixed a double reed : shawm b. : an obsolete single-reed wind instrument of varying size that after progressive modifications became the clarinet 2. : chanter 3 3. : the lowest register of the clarinet — often used as a direction to play a passage an octave lower 4. : a reed organ pipe usually of 8-foot pitch and of clarinetlike tone — called also schalmei |