In the 17th c. the shawm, heard here, developed into this double reed instrument
[DOC] [TLE] Music in the Daily Life of Vermeer: The Shawm - Essential Vermeer [PAR] The shawm (as a double reed instrument) has roughly the same ancient 
ancestors as ... Crusades (11th-13th century) but with some remodeling of the top
-end into a turned ... Click here for period shawm music: ...