Cremona

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Krummhorn \Krumm"horn`\, Krumhorn \Krum"horn`\
     (kr[=oo]m"h[^o]rn`), n. [G. krummhorn cornet; krumm crooked +
     horn horn.] (Mus.)
     (a) A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now
         obsolete (see {Cornet}, 1, a.).
     (b) A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called {cremona}.


         [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cremona \Cre*mo"na\ (kr[-e]*m[=o]"n[.a]), n.
     A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in
     Italy.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Cremona
       n : a city in Lombardy on the Po River; noted for the
           manufacture of fine violins in the 16th-18th centuries

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  CREMONA, n.  A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.