Oboe

Jeremy Irons

This is an oboe. The wonders of google.

Both the oboe and the French horn are both particularly difficult instruments. The fact that an oboist has to make his own reeds doesn't make it harder, but unless he's a good reed maker, he'll be unreliable. Oboe playing depends so much on the quality of the reed that you have to be very good at making them. I can't tell you much about the French horn but I think it's quite hard to place the right note before playing it, the oboe doesn't have this problem.

Well the oboe is very light. I'm not exactly sure, but you never seem to get tired of holding it because of its light weight.

No, the bassoon's fingerings are not the same as the fingering of oboes.

There was a time, back when oboes were first invented and bassoons were just changing over from the single-piece dulcian to the four-piece basson/bassoon that the fingering of the two instruments was quite similar, and had much in common with the recorder and flute as well.

With the split between the German and french schools of double reed instruments, though, it's hard to say that all bassoon fingerings are alike, or that all oboe fingerings are alike!

The major difference in fingering between all oboes and all bassoons comes from the fact that the bassoon's bore is folded. This means that two lengths of the bore, the part that makes high notes and the part that makes low notes, run parallel to each other. As a result, keys that affect low notes appear near keys which affect high notes, and fingers serve multiple duties.

Because of the size of the bassoon, it is generally supported from the lower end by a belt-like strap which the player sits upon. The oboe, though, is smaller, and is generally supported by the right thumb of the player. The immobilized thumb of the oboist and the free right thumb of the bassoonist lead to further differences between the instruments. The oboist has multiple keys which are operated by the little fingers and a key and a hole with a ring (the ring acts like another key) under the left thumb. The bassoonist, though, has two keys under the left little finger, as many as four under the right little finger, between 3 and 5 under the right thumb, and anywhere between 8 and 12 keys to operate with the left thumb!

If you were to consider the basic octave, though, there is a strong similarity between all of these instruments: the three fingers of the left hand (minus the little finger), the four of the right hand, and the left thumb are employed in playing the basic octave and most of the next octave. However, in all varieties of oboe and bassoon, accidental keys, whisper/voice keys (which help to sound upper octaves) and lower-range extension keys differ greatly.

I play the oboe and tried the bassoon for a few weeks. I found that the fingerings are the more or less the same but at a fifth difference, so an F on the oboe is a Bb on the bassoon.

the modern oboe was invented in the 1650's.

they are both Bb instruments, but they range of notes isnt.

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Sorry, but that (original) answer above is half-false. The oboe most definitely is NOT a Bb (transposing) instrument. The Oboe is a CONCERT-PITCH instrument. The Clarinet may be pitched in a variety of keys; Bb today is the most prevalent, but the A Clarinet is (or should be) in the collection of every professional orchestral clarinetist. The Oboe's range extends down to the Bb (one whole step) below Middle C; the Bb Clarinet's lowest written note is the "E" below Middle C; because it is a Bb transposing instrument, that "E" actually sounds one whole step lower - "D".

The oboe's larger, deeper cousin - the English horn - is a transposing instrument: in F. Its written note will sound a perfect fifth lower than written.

No. There is not a viola.

Alto flute Tranverse flute. ...

Bass oboe Bass, Oboe.

Bassoon

Bombard , Oboe.

Claghorn .

Clarinet .

Contrabass oboe , Oboe.

Cor anglais , Oboe.

Saxaphone

Bass Saxophone

Pipe Organ

Albogue

Alboka

Aulos

Diplica

Hornpipe

Launeddas

Pibgorn

Zhaleika

Arghul

Double clarinet

Mijwiz

Sipsi

To name just a few

Play the violin, I do. Flute is just blowing and pressing. In violin there's all sorts of techniques. Arco, pizzacato, things like that. You'll love violin.

you blow in the double reed, they vibrate, which creates sound, the air travels through the instrument and creates different notes/pitches based on the keys that are pressed down

Both instruments create their sound by virtue of a vibrating string.

Oboe reeds last about three to ten weeks if you take care of them, but they do break very easily. Also, I'm pretty sure it depends on the brand and hardness of the reed.

Oboe reeds last only 6-10 hours if cared for properly (not chipped)

The first saxophone was created by Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax in 1841. The first saxophone is what is commonly called a barri saxophone today. In the end there was 14 variations of a saxophone. Mr. Sax also created the baritone and the saxhorn that did not catch on to music. His orinal goal to replace orchestra instruments did not happen.

It is in C. That is not to say that that is the easiest key to play in - that is probably G or D!

Oboes is the plural form of oboe.

No. I play flute in a band that has an oboe, too, and they are two completely different instruments. You hold the flute sideways and blow into a lip hole and with the oboe you hold it down and blow on a double reed.

Oboes only come in one size but the English horn is slightly larger and very similar to the oboe. The bassoon is also a double reed instrument and it is very large compared to the oboe.

The Baritone oboe is the largest in the oboe family. Though if you mean in the double reed family it's the contrabasson. An oboist couldn't play the contrabassoon, but he could play the baritone oboe. It's 1 octave lower than the oboe.

depending on the oboe and reed, you can reach different notes. I have never been able to go above the f above the staff, but my teacher can go higher. On the lower side, you can go to the b flat right below the staff. If you have an extension, you can hit the a below that.

An Oboe player. I don't believe there is another term for it

One ancestor is an instrument called the serpent.

Because oboes rock so much that the people didn't want their awesomeness to interfere with the rest of the stinky band. JK! :P The reeds crack easily, and some people think that people can get "hurt" with the reed if the oboe is ever out of their mouth. Another problem is that oboes expands enormously with humidity making the pitch hard to find and making the oboe crack in certain cases.

I guess the main reason is that there's no music clip for an oboe so he wouldn't be able to carry his music! :P

All classic or symphony orchestras use Oboes, which are double-reed woodwinds. the Woodwind family includes the Clarinet, Oboe, Flute(by tradition all are metallic) Silver, Gold, or these days stainless steel!) and the Bassoon. you see, saxophones are NOT used in symphony orchestras so arrangers have to juggle parts for these woodwind instruments.from the top down, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon-not Baboon.l somebody drew a cartoon of a Baboon playing one when I was in high school and the nickname Baboon caught on. Jazz and dance bands almost always use Saxophones for these transposing parts, the multitude of valves comes in handy., Much mor musicianship is required to play these sounds on an Oboe or Bassoon. The Band leader Mitch Miller (not related to Glenn) was originally an Oboist, by the way.

Some composers that have written famous oboe solos are Beethoven, Berlioz, Bizet, Dvorak, Bach, Handel, Telemann, and Rossini.

In the Prokofiev original, the duck does not have a name, it's just called "the duck." In the Disney cartoon, the duck's name is Sonia. Sonia escapes the wolf in the Disney version; in the original, the duck does get eaten (but a line at the end explains that the duck was swallowed alive and can still be heard quacking in the wolf's stomach, which I guess is better than nothing).