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  • This was the cromorne, a wooden instrument with cylindrical column of air; the name is considered to remain in the cremona stop of the organ.

    Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

  • There are flute stops of various kinds; tonal stops that approximate the timbre of stringed instruments; stops for effecting changes in which each note, formed from several pipes, bring out simultaneously its fundamental and harmonic sounds; stops which serve to imitate the instruments of the orchestra, such as the trumpet, the clarinet, and the cremona (an obsolete instrument with a timbre peculiar to itself) and the bassoon.

    Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

  • When the prima-donna of some vauntful city trills her bird-song above the foot-lights, or the cremona moans out the sigh of night-winds through the forest, artificial townsfolk applaud.

    Lords of the North 1903

  • Thinking we had been taken for an expected lover, I, too, was moving off, when the voice, that sounded like the dropping golden notes of a cremona, called out in tones of vibrating alarm:

    Lords of the North 1903

  • There are flute stops of various kinds; tonal stops that approximate the timbre of stringed instruments; stops for effecting changes in which each note, formed from several pipes, bring out simultaneously its fundamental and harmonic sounds; stops which serve to imitate the instruments of the orchestra, such as the trumpet, the clarinet, and the cremona (an obsolete instrument with a timbre peculiar to itself) and the bassoon.

    Musical Memories Camille Saint-Sa��ns 1878

  • Next he played him, both upon his flageolet and his cremona, some of the most modish airs.

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Next he played him, both upon his flageolet and his cremona, some of the most modish airs.

    Paul Clifford — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • At this speech Paul looked wistfully round the spruce parlour, and thought what a fine thing it would be to be lord of such a domain, together with the appliances of flageolet and cremona, boxing-gloves, books, fly-flanking flagellum, three guineas, with the little mountain of silver, and the reputation -- shared only with Lord Dunshunner -- of being the best whip in London.

    Paul Clifford — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Over his fireplace were arranged boxing-gloves and fencing foils; on his table lay a cremona and a flageolet.

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • At this speech Paul looked wistfully round the spruce parlour, and thought what a fine thing it would be to be lord of such a domain, together with the appliances of flageolet and cremona, boxing-gloves, books, fly-flanking flagellum, three guineas, with the little mountain of silver, and the reputation -- shared only with Lord Dunshunner -- of being the best whip in London.

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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