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The history of the Oboe's double-reeded ancestors stretches back to antiquity, but the oboe itself was probably developed in France in the 1600s, when it would have been called the "hautbois". "Oboe" is actually just the English version of this name. The oboe's direct ancestor, the shawm, may have been invented in the 1200s.

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