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

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

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. 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."

oboe di caccia   

double-reed instrument    double reed   

oboe da caccia    oboe d'amour    hautboy    cor anglais   

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

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

hautboy   

Bobo    bobo    hobo    lobo   

clarinet    violoncello    viola    hautboy    clarionet    saxophone    cornet    harpsichord    cambio    viol