She was drawn to the beautiful sound of the oboe coming from the fire escape. From LearnThat.org.
I mean, the oboe is a very piercing instrument, as you know. From Wordnik.com. [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference
If you learn the clarinet, then the oboe is a relatively easy transition. From Wordnik.com. [New Kid on the Hallway] Reference
The oboe is a representative type of the higher pitched double-reed instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
(Before modern versions of instruments, the oboe was the most sonically stable instrument, and so the most likely to be in tune). From Wordnik.com. [www.buzz.mn -] Reference
Really good detective fiction and thrillers are my "oboe" of choice. From Wordnik.com. [It's not the end of the world...really] Reference
The oboe is a difficult instrument to control. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend in review] Reference
The oboe of the dancing gnat, the cornet of the bee. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The oboe takes the next place in the wood wind band. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
RANYA NASHAT, FRENCH HORN PLAYER: My friend plains the oboe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2008] Reference
"Just that one," brother said, head tilted towards the oboe. From Wordnik.com. [Estate] Reference
You know, it starts in the bassoon and then it goes to oboe. From Wordnik.com. ['Scheherazade,' 1001 Nights Retold in a Symphony] Reference
I would get to work with the top oboe players, top string players. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 17, 2002] Reference
"I guess I'll take up the study of the oboe," grumbled Jennie Stone. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
You know, when people come to the symphony, nobody brings their oboe. From Wordnik.com. ['The Mighty Uke': A Musical Underdog Makes A Comeback] Reference
The two reeds are tied together and stick up from the top of the oboe. From Wordnik.com. [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference
In the global economy, the United States plays the oboe, setting the tone. From Wordnik.com. [Irrational Strength] Reference
The oboe reed has been much altered since the earlier years of this century. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
ELLIOTT: So does being an oboe player make you neurotic, or do you think. From Wordnik.com. [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference
The so-called wood wind instruments are the flute, oboe, bassoon, and clarinet. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
That's why I come back to this, you know, topic of oboe players being neurotic. From Wordnik.com. [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference
So as soon as I got out of the house I threw away the oboe away and learned saxophone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2002] Reference
And I think our job as - as oboe players is really make it as warm, as colorful as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference
Its fundamental form is that in which it appears in the second bar of the Prelude in the oboe. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
(Soundbite of oboe) Mr. WANG: And I would say this reed is, you know, it's - its pretty good. From Wordnik.com. [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference
Mr. WANG: It is a very precise - that's why, you know, most of oboe players are very neurotic. From Wordnik.com. [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference
"There were never enough oboe players to go around," Miller once said, in a rare fit of modesty. From Wordnik.com. [They Sang Along With Mitch] Reference
At 12, he began to study the oboe and within two years was at the city's famous Eastman School of Music. From Wordnik.com. [Mitch Miller obituary] Reference
You should give the accordion the same respect as, I don't know, the clarinet, the oboe, the glockenspiel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2009] Reference
Being on a larger scale, the sarrusophones are louder than the corresponding instruments of the oboe family. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
The oboe, for example, is so constructed that only the high overtones are present, and hence the sound gives a. From Wordnik.com. [General Science] Reference
They braced the instruments underneath their arms and approached the oboe together, stopping on adjacent large tiles. From Wordnik.com. [Estate] Reference
And when you go to orchestral concerts learn early to follow special instruments like the clarinet, the oboe, the drum. From Wordnik.com. [Music Talks with Children] Reference
The sarrusophone may fairly be regarded as an oboe or bassoon; but the saxophone is not so closely related to the clarinet. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
The wood-wind generally sustain soft chords, clarinet, oboe, flute, and horn succeeding each other with the sighs from No. 12. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
Above there floats a melody of exquisite tenderness, first in the oboe, then in the clarinet, continued later in a solo violin. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
It was formerly more like the reed of the shawm, an instrument from which the oboe has been derived; and that of the present bassoon. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
A little-known fact about a symphony orchestra: the oboe must first sound a particular note for the other instruments to tune accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [Irrational Strength] Reference
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