The oboe ( / ˈ oʊ b oʊ /) is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" (French compound word ...
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The Oboe. The oboe is a soprano-range, double-reed woodwind instrument of length 62 cm. Its wooden tube is distinguished by a conical bore expanding at the end into a flaring bell.
noun . 1. a woodwind instrument having a slender conical, tubular body and a double-reed mouthpiece. 2. (in an organ) a reed stop with a sound like that of an oboe.
The oboe is a double reed. musical instrument. of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" (French, meaning "high wood"), "hoboy ...
Description. The three branches of the woodwind family have different sources of sound. Vibrations begin when air is blown across the top of an instrument, across a single reed ...