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A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.
A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.
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A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
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Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.
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A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.
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One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
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Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
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A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
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A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.
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A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.
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An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.
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A performer on the oboe.
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An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
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A hautboy or oboe.
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A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.
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