Also surná, surnay. [a. Urdū surnā, sarnāe = Pers. surnā, also sūrnā.] An Oriental variety of oboe.
[1662. J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 208. There were also common Hawboyes, which they [sc. Persians] call Surnatzi.]
1905. Daily Chron., 24 Feb., 8/5. An instrument called surná, that bears a resemblance … to a Scotch bagpipe.
1907. Blackw. Mag., June, 819/1. Moving to the thunder of tom-toms and to the squeal of the surnais (native pipes).
