Crossword-Solution: TROMBE 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Once, one of these vortexes shot downward, with projectile speed, rapidly assuming the terrible form of the trombe of a tornado, and where it struck the ground it tore everything to pieces--trees, houses, the very earth itself were ground to powder and then whirled aloft by the resistless suction.

For the instrumental accompaniments at least twenty players are required: viz., 2 or 3 first Violins, 2 or 3 second Violins, 4 Violas, 2 Violoncelli, 1 Contrabasso, 2 or more Flutes, 2 or 3 Oboi, 1 or 2 Fagotti, 3 Trombe, 1 Timpani.

They appear at first as if reconnoitring the place, when, suddenly throwing themselves into a vortex of apparent confusion, they descend spirally with astonishing quickness, and very much resemble a _trombe_ or water-spout.

The Trombe, or Trompe, was an instrument of the trumpet kind, from which it is believed the word “Trombadour,” or “Troubadour,” is derived; it being to this instrument they sung their poems.

Even Monteverde wrote for one clarino (a small trumpet), three trombe (the ordinary trumpet), and four tromboni.