creˈmona2
[Corruption of krummhorn, cromorne.]
An organ reed-stop of 8-foot tone.
| 1660 Specif. of Organ, Whitehall in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 591 Choir Organ..14. Cremona. 1880 P. David in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 416 ‘Cremona’, as applied to an organ stop, is a mere ignorant corruption of ‘Krumhorn’. 1880 E. J. Hopkins ibid. II. 74 Krummhorn (i.e. crooked-horn), Cromorne, Cremona..The Cremonas in the organs built by Father Smith (1660)..were doubtless ‘voiced’ to imitate the..now obsolete crooked-horn. |