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chaliyl, "to bore." Representing wind instruments, as the harp represents "stringed instruments". The pipe single or double, the flute; one of the simplest and oldest of musical instruments, the accompaniment of festivity (; ; ), religious services (), and processions (). Also suited by its plaintive softness to mourning (; ). The "shawm" of which the clarionet is an improvement, may be from chaliyl through the French chalumeau, German schalmeie.