Oboe

The piccolo oboe is the smallest you can buy, but you could make yourself a mini oboe! :)

One nickname I've heard is the "ill wind that nobody blows well"...or something like that. But I call it "un rayon du soleil"(a ray of sunshine!) or "femme celeste" (heavenly woman).

I'm pretty sure baritone horn and piano are both concert pitched instruments.

The Baritone Sax is a transposing instrument and is pitched in Eb.

This means that if you play a C it will sound as Eb.

Therefore you need to transpose the piano part down 3 semitones.

for example... you see a written Eb and you play 3 semitones lower... C

You see a written C and you play an A.

If in doubt... simply go to a piano and play a C then find the note on your sax.

There are many differneces between an elbow and an oboe. First, one is a joint and the other has three joints. Aside from that the elbow is a body part, where as the Oboe is a musical instrument.

Typically manufacturers only offer colors on marching instruments, most often the clarinet; because the oboe doesn't march, it is generally only available in black plastic or natural wood tones.

"Pink oboe" is also a euphemism for the penis, so "playing the pink oboe" would mean performing oral sex.

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There is the heckelphone, the bass oboe, the cor anglais, the oboe d'amore, the regular oboe, and the piccolo oboe. Maybe there are others.

When your C is too low, this could mean a few things; 1) Your reed could be badly scraped and have a "ditch" in it, 2) It could be a problem with your oboe, 3) The C is possibly the least stable note of the oboe, so you could be biting on the reed or not using enough air.

The range of an oboe is from a B flat below middle C to a high G. So just over 2 and a half octaves

people who make oboes

The oboe and bassoon are members of the double-reed family. This means that they produce their sounds by means of a reed which is made up of two pieces of 'reed' (Arundo Donax, actually a type of cane) which allow air to pass between them. The vibration of these reeds against each other produces the sound which is modified for pitch and tone by the body of the instrument, the fingering pattern used, and the effect of lips on the reed and the oral cavity around it. Notes are started and stopped with the tongue, in both cases. Both instruments have a (mostly) conical bore, and overblow at the octave.

Beyond that, much is different between the two instruments. The oboe derives from the Shawm family of renaissance instruments, while the bassoon hails from the dulcian/fagott family, which are distinguished from other renaissance reed instruments in having the characteristic conical bore which is folded. The bassoon bore travels from the reed to the 'wing joint' perpindicular to the rest of the bassoon's body through the "bocal". The wing joint bore leads directly into the 'boot joint' bore, then folds at the bottom of the instrument and returns parallel to itself through the 'bass joint' and the bell.

Both instruments are fingered through a combination of open holes, closed by the pads of the fingers, and keys. The oboe's system is quite complicated, while the bassoon's basic octaves are fingered in a simple manner. The complex keys of the bassoon are limited, largely, to extending the range up into higher harmonics of the tube, and down the bell to the lowest notes. The oboe's keying simultaneously adjusts for irregularities in the bore's porting and extends the range.

The oboe belongs to its own family, the oboe family, which currently consists of the oboe, the oboe d'amore and English horn, and the baritone or bass oboe. The oboe and English horn are very common and moderately common in the symphony orchestra and symphonic bands. The oboe d'amore has an extensive baroque literature. The baritone oboe is limited to a few orchestral pieces where it is invoked for effect, such as Gustav Holsts' "The Planets."

The bassoon also has its own family, consisting of two instruments in common use now: the bassoon and the contrabassoon. The contrabassoon sounds an octave lower than the bassoon, and doesn't have as high a range, relatively speaking. It is used for effect as well as for reinforcement of the lower instruments of the orchestra. It is most noticeable in Ravel's "Sourceror's Apprentice" where it has a solo passage (associated in the Mickey Mouse segment of the original Fantasia with the chopped-up broom pieces starting to move again!)

The names "symphony orchestra" and "philharmonic orchestra" are synonymous regarding both size of band and quality of players and music-making.

The name "sinfonia" would imply that an orchestra is smaller - probably using fewer string players but this is not always the case.

The "cane" is the piece of wood used as a reed for oboes.

I have the same problem with F (all octaves) and Eb (main/middle octave). Here's what I do to have the tone corrected and or working correctly.

Reed:

1. Blow out the other end (cork and metal side) to remove spit.

2. Blow air into it lightly (not making a sound, but just blowing air into it).

3. Pinch the opening of the reed slightly.

Oboe:

1. Check all the parts are together.

2. Take the Oboe apart and put it back together.

3. Swab it.

4. Check that all the keys are in there, or aren't messed up/ broken.

Embouchure and Air Stream:

1. Take a break, catch your breath and try again.

2. Blow harder or softer. It's what I like to call my "Scream and Whisper" technique.

3. Mess around with your embouchure or air stream.

Playing:

1. Try a scale, etude or song that doesn't include the note.

2. Make sure the Oboe is broken in. The peak of performance is 5-7 years for Oboes, unlike strings that just get better with age.

3. If it's a wood, make sure it isn't cracked. (If it is, stop playing it and get a repair asap.)

4. Try Long Tones with the note.

If none of these work, arrange an appointment with a double reed specialist. they know what's best.

No, actually it will benifet health by improved breathing

Its on the soundtrack to the film The Mission by Ennio Morricone

Oboes are either made of Grenadilla wood (and African blackwood) or Plastic. Plastic is much cheaper but as you could probably guess the Grenadilla oboes have a much better sound.

Plastic is a little bit too general. If they are not made from wood (grenadilla, rosewood), oboes like these:
http://www.oboe-shop.de/en/lalique-semi-automatic-oboe-hf30-508.html

are made out of ABS plastic.

ABS is the same material that is used for car bumpers. It is rather hard. More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styrene

A medieval oboe would be called the shawm

It's a relatively high-pitched instrument.

The oboe is a woodwind instrument. An "ill woodwind that no man blows good."

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Ah! The difference is the scrape shape. In America the reeds are scraped all the way down to the string, whereas in England they are scraped 1/3 -1/2 down. In America the only shape used is a "W" shape, in England they use both the "U" and the "W" shape.

Put down all six fingers. Half-hole the top finger on your left hand. Put your right pinkie on the middle pinkie key.