Shawm
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
Prayerbook version of Psalms, instead of the Bible version, "cornet." A bass instrument like the clarionet, from German schalmeie a "reed pipe", with the compass of an octave and the tone of a bassoon, but plaintive. On the manor house walls, Leckingfield, near Beverley, Yorkshire, is the following: "A shawme maketh a swete sounde, for he tunythe the basse; It mountithe not to hye, but kepith rule and space. Yet yf it be blowne with to vehement a wynde, It makithe it to mysgoverne out of his kinde." Sheal Ezra 10:29.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
Shawm. In the Prayer book version of Psalms 98:6, "with trumpets also stands also and Shawms " is the rendering of what stands in the Authorized Version, "with trumpets and sound of Cornet ." The Hebrew word translated cornet is treated under the head. The "shawm" was a musical instrument resembling the clarinet.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(n.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
