Oboe - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: oboeHautboy
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...
Bassoon
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...
Bombardo
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...
Clarinet
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...
Cornet
An obsolete rude reed instrument Ger Zinken of the oboe family...
Corno di bassetto
A tenor clarinet called also basset horn and sometimes confounded with the English horn which is a tenor oboe...
Corno Inglese
A reed instrument related to the oboe but deeper in pitch the English horn...
cromorna
A certain reed stop in the organ of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe...
Harmoniphon
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...
Hoboy
A hautboy or oboe...
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