‖ rauschpfeife Mus.
(ˈraʊʃpfaɪfə)
Pl. -n.
[Ger., = reed-pipe.]
1. (See quot. 1964.)
| 1876 Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 374/2 Rauschpfeif [sic],..a stop in old organs of two ranks of pipes, consisting of a twelfth and fifteenth, or a fifteenth and octave twelfth. 1964 S. Marcuse Mus. Instruments 436/1 Rauschpfeife,..2..organ stop first mentioned by Arnold Schlick in 1511. It seems to have consisted originally of reed pipes with conical resonators; it became transformed in the course of the c. to a 2-rank stop of flue pipes. Since the mid-17th c. the stop was treated as a mixture, often 3-rank... In the 18th c. it was enlarged further... The original meaning of the word had long been forgotten: to Praetorius already it was a ‘rustling’ pipe (from [G.] rauschen, to rustle). 1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance vii. 60/1 The ‘manual’, the main part of the instrument [sc. a Renaissance organ], with eleven registers, was composed of reeds and flue stops, including a Zink, Regall, and Rauspfeiffen. |
2. A reed-cap shawm of the Renaissance period.
| 1939 A. Carse Mus. Wind Instruments xi. 128 Two instruments of the shawm type figure in one of Burgkmair's famous series of woodcuts ‘Kayser Maximilians I Triumph’ (c. 1516) and are there named rauschpfeiffen. 1964 S. Marcuse Mus. Instruments 436/1 Rauschpfeife (? MHGer. Rusch, rush), 1. family of Ger. Renaissance reed-cap shawms, with wide conical bore.., terminating in a bell, the double reed concealed in a wooden cap. 1968 Observer 19 May 40 David Munrow..has a collection of more than 100 historic woodwind instruments with engaging names like..the rauschpfeife. 1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance vi. 50/4 Rauschpfeifen and schreierpfeifen..are reed-cap shawms... Of the two, rauschpfeifen seem to have been more common. 1978 Early Music Apr. 253/1 No rauschpfeifen..are preserved, and yet no one denies they existed. |