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• n  a medieval oboe

• Come hear the sackbut, shawm and Medici Philharmonic The period before Bach was long the Atlantis of musical history: an entire realm sunk into oblivion, remembered only in.
• One special find: a shawm, the 16th century forerunner of the oboe.
• These, De Angelis concluded, were used to make lactogenic music until the shawm replaced the bagpipe.