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Alfred Laubin was born in 1906 in Detroit, where his father Carl was a charter member of that city's orchestra, playing the oboe and the clarinet. His early oboe studies were in Boston with Lenom, DeVergie, and Gillet, [ clarification needed ] who exercised the greatest influence on Laubin to start making oboes.
The oboe is especially used in classical music, film music, some genres of folk music, and is occasionally heard in jazz, rock, pop, and popular music. The oboe is widely recognized as the instrument that tunes the orchestra with its distinctive 'A'. [3] A musician who plays the oboe is called an oboist.
Thomas Stanesby Sr. (c.1668–1734) and Thomas Stanesby Jr (1692–1754) [1] were English oboe, flute, bassoon and recorder-makers of the 18th century. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Many of their instruments survive in museum collections around the world, and are widely copied by instrument makers of the present day.
Essay on the Jiahu flutes from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; A selection of historic flutes from around the world at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Walking Stick Flute and Oboe, Georg Henrich Scherer, Butzbach, c. 1750–57; Glass flute, Claude Laurent, Paris, 1813; Porcelain flute, Saxony, 1760–1790
A. Laubin, Inc. was an American maker of oboes and English horns, formerly located in Peekskill, New York. The first Laubin oboe was made in 1931 by Alfred Laubin, a performing musician who was dissatisfied with the oboes available at the time. Building an oboe began as a home project, but soon Mr. Laubin was able to make an instrument which ...
Musette (dance) , a French baroque dance style; see list of classical music genres; Musette de cour, or baroque musette, a musical instrument of the bagpipe family; Musette bechonnet, a type of French bagpipe; Musette bressane, a type of French bagpipe; Oboe musette or piccolo oboe, the smallest member of the oboe family
Jean Hotteterre (1677–1720) was a French composer and musician of the Hotteterre family. [1]Hotteterre worked at the family workshop on the Rue de Harlay, Paris until his death at the court of Louis XIV of France.
Theobald Böhm, photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl, ca. 1852. Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (9 April 1794 – 25 November 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and its fingering system (now known as the "Boehm system").