Brewer's: Cremona

An organ stop, a corruption of the Italian cormorne, which is the German krummhorn, an organ stop of eight feet pitch; so called from a wind-instrument made of wood, and bent outwards in a circular arc (krummhorn, crooked horn).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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