noun. A slender woodwind instrument with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece, having a range of three octaves and a penetrating, poignant sound.

noun. A reed stop in an organ that produces a sound similar to that of the oboe.

noun. An important musical instrument of the wood wind group, and the type of the family in which the tone is produced by a double reed.

noun. In organ-building, a reed-stop with metal pipes which give a penetrating and usually very effective oboe-like tone. It is usually placed in the swell organ.

noun. One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.

noun. are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel.

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noun. A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grendilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

noun. a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece

"I think it helped me get the structure of music in my mind, starting with oboe, which is a C instrument, and I played that when I was in fourth grade because I was too young to be in the band and they won't let me in."

cor anglais  hautboy  oboe d'amour  oboe da caccia  

oboe di caccia  

baroque oboe  bass oboe  contrabass oboe  oboe da caccia  oboe d’amore  

double reed  double-reed instrument  

basset oboe  heckelphone  musette pipe  oboe d'amore  oboe da caccia  

Bobo  bobo  hobo  lobo  

accordion  alto  banjo  bass viol  cambio  

English horn  Pandean pipe  aulos  basset horn  basset oboe