1) Single-reed instrument 
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``This article is about the historical musical instrument. For the register on the clarinet that is named for this instrument, see Clarinet#Range. The chalumeau (oʊ; lang; plural chalumeaux; from Greek: κάλαμος, kalamos, meaning `reed`) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical era. The chalumeau is a...
single-reed wind instrument, forerunner of the clarinet. Chalumeau referred to various folk reed pipes and bagpipes, especially reed pipes of ... [3 related articles]
the low register of the clarinet. · a 17th- or 18th-century woodwind instrument.