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The instruments of the modern orchestra & early records of the precursors of the violin family, with over 500 illustrations and plates;, 1910
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1CHAPTER IV.
3WOOD WIND.
5The Oboe.
6(The Shawm.)
8French, Hautbois. German, Hoboe. Italian, Oboe.
10The Oboe is an elaborate and complicated instrument of the double-reed, wood wind, class.
12Construction.—It is composed of a wooden tube with conical bore, widening out to form a small bell, and having at the opposite end a short metal tube, to which are bound by silk, the two thin pieces of cane forming the mouthpiece. Into this the player breathes gently, managing the breath as for singing. As he is obliged to loosen the lips from the mouthpiece, to breathe out the superfluous air, he cannot, therefore, execute very long passages without pauses.
14Production of Sound.—The notes are produced by holes, some open, others closed by keys raised by means of levers. The newest models possess three or four alternative fingerings for certain awkward notes, which reduces the difficulty in fingering inconvenient passages. It is to Barret we owe the greatest improvements in this instrument. The oboe, like the flute, is an octave instrument, that is to say it overblows the
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