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I get some amusing musical questions as I charge round the country with my early-music-meets-punk-band Barnstormer 1649 large collection of obsolete instruments in tow.
The most common one is: “What’s that buzzy thing that looks like a walking stick?”
Well, it’s a crumhorn and it went out of fashion towards the end of the 17th century, replaced by the oboe, which sound a bit less like a demented bee on steroids.
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