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  2. Oboe - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Taille (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The taille, also called the taille de hautbois or the alto oboe, was a Baroque tenor oboe pitched in F. It had a straight body, an open bell, and two keys. [1] The instrument was first used in Alcidiane by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1658 and in French ensembles known as the bandes de hautbois, in which it played the inner lines of polyphonic ...

  4. Contrabass oboe - Wikipedia

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    There was an instrument referred to by H. de Garsault in 1761 as the basse de cromorne or basse de hautbois (Finkelman 2001) which was used by Lully, Charpentier, and other French Baroque composers. This apparently was an oboe-type instrument in the bassoon range. It had, nonetheless, a distinct tonal quality of its own.

  5. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instrument family Instrument name The note C 4 written down produces: Comment Accordion: D ♭ piano accordion D ♭ 4: Bass accordion: C 2: Arpeggione: C 2 /C 3: Bagpipe Great Highland bagpipe: variable D ♭ 4 - D 4: A minority of bagpipes, made for playing with other instruments, are exactly D ♭ 4 (referred to as B ♭, relative to the

  6. List of woodwind instruments - Wikipedia

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    Balaban (instrument) (Azerbaijan) Bassanelli; Bassoon. Soprano bassoon; Tenoroon; Contrabassoon; Biforaers (Sicily) Bombardeers (France) Catalan shawm; Cromorne (French baroque, different from the crumhorn) Contra Forte; Duduk (Armenia) Dulcian; Dulzaina (Spain) Heckelphone. Piccolo heckelphone; Hichiriki (Japan) Kèn bầu (Vietnam) Mizmar ...

  7. Bombard (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Typically the smaller the instrument, the more penetrating the tone. The most common keys are intermediate in size. B♭ instruments are used with the large Bagad bands, while instruments in A and G are popular for use in bombard-biniou duos and also with Fest Noz bands using mixed instrumentation such as guitars, accordions, and violins.

  8. Bass oboe - Wikipedia

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    The bass oboe or baritone oboe is a double reed instrument in the woodwind family. It is essentially twice the size of a regular (soprano) oboe so it sounds an octave lower; it has a deep, full tone somewhat akin to that of its higher-pitched cousin, the English horn. The bass oboe is notated in the treble clef, sounding one octave lower than ...

  9. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)

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