Editing Shawm (section)

===Charumera===
The {{nihongo|''charumera''|チャルメラ|}}, or {{nihongo|''charumeru''|チャルメル|}}, is a double-reed instrument in traditional [[Japanese music]] descended either from shawms brought to Japan by Portuguese [[Christian missionaries]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Haynes |first2=Bruce |title=The Oboe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQfnx89NXDUC&q=Charumera&pg=RA1-PA23 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |location=New Haven, CT |year=2004 |isbn=0-300-09317-9}}</ref> or possibly Iberian traders in the 16th century.<ref>Sibyl Marcuse, ''Musical Instruments: A yo Dictionary'', corrected edition (The Norton Library N758) (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975): 90</ref> It is sometimes used in [[kabuki]] theatre performances. It is also strongly associated in popular culture with street vendors of [[ramen]], who played a distinctive melody on it to attract customers.