The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73712   Message #2764419
Posted By: Tootler
11-Nov-09 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: Collective nouns for folk music
Subject: RE: Collective nouns for folk music
A persuasion of shawms.

No, you can't have that one. Shawms already have a collective noun dating from the 16th century:

A noyse [sic] of shawms