Shawm

The shawm is a traditional wind instrument about 30 cm long -although this varies considerably- cone-shaped and played with a double reed. It belongs to the oboe family; in fact it is sometimes called the rustic oboe.

In Maderas Barber we use several types of wood with the right properties for the manufacture of this legendary instrument whose invention dates back to around 3,000 B.C. according to various sources. Among them, woods as beautiful and acoustically superb as blackwood, boxwood, cocobolo, kingwood, santos rosewood, ebony, bubinga...

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