Oboe

no, not in normal circumstances

Some things that the bassoon and oboe have in common include:

- They are very common.

- They are both in the woodwind family

- They both have the same fingerings

- They both use a double reed.

On the standard oboe that we know today, there are open keys on the first four keys. On advanced models of the oboe there is an open hole for the sixth key.

The first key has a half- hole that allows the musician a way to play several different notes. For a 'd' the play would uncover this half hole to produce a clearer and more in tuned pitch. This half hole also allows octave jumps to the second octave sound better.

The other keys have holes to create different pitches. When the player covers the holes in the systematic descending order it will create pitches that create a scale. When the first key hole is covered it will create the pitch b. When the second is covered it will create the pitch a, third g the fourth a f- sharp. The fifth doesn't have a hole but creates e. The sixth creates a d.

No, the oboe d'amore is lower than the usual oboe, by a minor third. It is in A. It is between the oboe and the cor anglais (English Horn), which is in F.

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Amy Apel

Librarian

Young People's Symphony Orchestra

Berkeley, CA

it could be a cor aglais, also known as the english horn. most likely though, it is the oboe, which is more common.

bass clarinet (single reed, like clarinet); bassoon (double reed, like oboe)

The lowest note on the oboe is a B flat below middle C.

However, many student oboes lack the necessary key to play this note. In these beginner oboes, the lowest note is a B below middle C. It is still possible to play a B flat on these beginner oboes by plugging the low B flat hole with your knee or leg.

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov wrote a concerto for oboe and band. It's not his greatest masterpiece, but it deserves a listen.

The oboe's first ancestor, called a shawm, originated in the 12th century.

there is no such thing as an oboe percussion. there is an oboe, and there are percussion instruments, but not an oboe percussion. From an oboe player: I think you might be mixed up. I play some pieces that say oboe/percussion on them, but that is because those pieces are written for middle school bands.

normal b flat, normal e flat, normal d, low g

well, the trill key depends on what note you are trilling to. the keys labeled trill keys are the two small ones behind where you put your fingers on the left hand. they open the two small keys above where your left hand is placed.

All reeds need to be soaked to soften them before playing. This allows them to vibrate as you play. A hard, dry reed will crack rather than vibrate. Single reeds for instruments such as clarinet & saxophone are soaked by sucking them before placing them on the instruments. Double reeds for Oboe, Cor Anglais & Bassoon need to be soaked in water due to the different shape of the reed. Sucking them in the mouth does not soak the entire reed.

When you blow through the reed it vibrates and goes through each hole and the bell. The more keys covered the lower the noise is.

A musician who plays the oboe is an oboist.

It does. They are;

the Piccolo Oboe (Oboe Musette)

the Oboe (including various versions of today's Oboe, including different Baroque, Classical, and Romantic models)

the Oboe d'amore

the Oboe da Caccia also known as 'taille de hautbois'

the English Horn (Cor Anglais or Cor Angle)

the Bass (or baritone) Oboe

the Contra-Bass Oboe

the Heckelphone

You can't know that without a professional looking at it. The same oboe make and serial number could be worth 200$ or 3000$. It depends on how well it's been kept.

French horn, piano.

Traditionally, the orchestra tunes to the oboe. This leaves the oboist with the responsibility of maintaining pitch-forks or an electronic tuner which is properly calibrated to produce the A (the note that the orchestra tunes to) his director demands, and to maintain a few reeds capable of producing this pitch in a strong and continuously accurate tone.

About the "A" that the orchestra tunes to: since about 1948, A has been defined as 440 cycles per second (Hz, pronounced Hertz.) Some orchestra directors, however, prefer to tune their orchestras higher, to 441, 442, even as high as 445Hz. They believe that the strings sound brighter and louder, and that the other instruments improve in sound as a result of the higher pitch. (This is often circumvented by the players obtaining smaller instruments which play with the same tone at higher pitch, or string players placing their bridges closer to the nut so they have shorter strings!)

It is generally believed that the oboe is used as the pitch source to tune the orchestra because, of all the instruments, the oboe has the least ability to be varied. In this way of thinking, the oboist makes their reeds and strives to be able to play in tune, and since they can't be adjusted, whatever the oboist comes up with is what everyone has to accept and adjust to. There may be some truth to this legend.

On the other hand, the oboe actually has a fairly large range of variability if the reed is well made and the oboist is professional-grade. (Consider this: If oboes were so impossible to tune, how could a Berlioz symphony employ four of them?)

In actual fact, today, most orchestra musicians are already well-tuned to electronic tuners before the oboist sounds the first note, and the oboe-note/tuneup session is more for show than for real tuning.

Yes. The Canadian Tenors (Remigio Pereira, Victor Micallef, Fraser Walters, and Clifton Murray) debuted in Victoria, Canada, in 2004, as a trio. In addition to the current members, they have had 10 others.

The group was renamed "The Tenors" in 2012.

A double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family.

Both the oboe and the bassoon are double reed instruments and belong to the woodwind family.