The rauschpfeife's a musical instrument of the woodwind family, originally popular in Europe in the mid-16th Century. In common with the crumhorn and cornamuse, it's a wooden double-reed instrument with the reed enclosed in a windcap. The player blows into a slot in the top of the windcap to produce the sound. Rauschpfeifes differ from crumhorns mainly in the shape of the body, which, like the shawm,'s conical. This design has the consequence that the instrument's exceedingly loud, which made it… (More on Rauschpfeife)