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Patricola make oboes and clarinets from the woods of Grenadilla (Dalbergia melanoxylon) and Bubinga (Guibourtia tessmannii), aged for up to 12 years, and with silver-plated or optionally gold-plated key work. [1] The woodworking is done with the help of CNC machines, while the hand-made key work is manufactured in-house. [4]
A modern oboe with the "full conservatoire" ("conservatory" in the US) or Gillet key system has 45 pieces of keywork, with the possible additions of a third-octave key and alternate (left little finger) F- or C-key. The keys are usually made of nickel silver, and are silver- or occasionally gold-plated. Besides the full conservatoire system ...
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Haynes, Bruce: 2001, The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy 1640–1760, Oxford Early Music Series, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-816646-X; Rauch, Christian: 1999, “Wiener Oboen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert”, Rohrblatt : Magazin für Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott und Saxophon 14: [page needed]
In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, single oboes are designated as 422.11. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The contrabass oboe is a double reed woodwind instrument in the key of C or F, sounding two octaves or an octave and a fifth (respectively) lower than the standard oboe.
The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe or sopranino oboe and historically called an oboe musette (or just musette), is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family. Pitched in E♭ or F above the regular oboe (i.e. notated a minor third or perfect fourth lower than sounding), the piccolo oboe is a sopranino version of the ...
The oboe d'amore was invented in the eighteenth century and was first used by Christoph Graupner in his cantata Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Güt (1717). Johann Sebastian Bach wrote many pieces—a concerto, many of his cantatas, and the Et in Spiritum sanctum movement of his Mass in B minor—for the instrument.