Before the rails was a fellow playing upon the hautboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference

You remember in 'Henry IV' — 'The case of a treble hautboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local Color] Reference

The musicians, with biniou and hautboy, went round to summon the guests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

In a large boat were violinists and hautboy-players that made sweet music.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Versailles] Reference

While Vivaldi listened, a hautboy and a pastoral drum were heard considerably nearer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Italian] Reference

She was still in arms when the combined airs of a violin and a hautboy caught her ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

Three nights later three violins, a flute, a guitar, and a hautboy began another serenade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ursula] Reference

The music consists of the biniou or bagpipe, and the flageolet or hautboy, sometimes with the addition of a drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

He was eminent for his skill in playing upon the German flute and hautboy, and much employed as a teacher of music.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference

In English it becomes hautboy, a wooden musical instrument of two-foot tone, I believe, played with a double reed, an oboe, in fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local Color] Reference

Raaff, with a hautboy and a bassoon solo obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

Instruments four, harp, hautboy and gittern and psaltery?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference

In the swell two diapasons, principal, hautboy and trumpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers] Reference

He could draw, write, thread needles, and play the hautboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference

Salentin played the hautboy, Hulmandel and Cramer the piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

Herschel could play the hautboy, the violin and the harpsichord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference

You know Frazer, the hautboy player in Edinburgh -- he is here instructing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Burns] Reference

There was too much blare of brass, whine of hautboy, and scraping of strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference

Then it became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference

"Heard on Fraser's hautboy, it used to fill my eyes with tears," Burns himself once wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference

I made him a present of a concerto for the hautboy; it is being copied in Cannabich's room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

I have added a short recitative with hautboy and bassoon, for here recitative is much liked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

A sweet air, minor and major by turns, with some hautboy wailing, paints the sufferer's sorrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference

They resemble the reed in the hautboy -- they give B metallic ring in the words where they occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men] Reference

At fourteen, he was playing a hautboy in his father's band and practising on the violin at spare times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference

The "sacrificium Deo spiritus" being an aria andante for Raaff, with a hautboy and a bassoon solo obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

Western Ocean, in New York City, hautboy, or ho-boy, becomes the name by which the night-scavenger is known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local Colour] Reference

Bring not the thundering drum, nor yet The harshly-shrieking clarionet, Nor screaming hautboy, trumpet shrill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Journals 02]]

Jupiter, while the city band, discoursing eloquent music from hautboy and viol, came upon the heels of the allegory.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Crocker had lived above his head at college, and often kept him, sleepless half the night by playing on the hautboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Pharisees] Reference

They are not the soft sounds of the flute or of the hautboy that I hear, but the sweeter notes of Nature's own music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference

Stanhope, one of whom performed 'tolerably ill upon a broken hautboy, and the other something worse upon a cracked flute.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1] Reference

Ramm (hautboy-player) is a good, jolly, worthy man, about thirty-five, who has travelled a great deal, so has much experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

Queen Anne had been obliged to divert herself, in 1703, with a fiddle and a hautboy, and with country dances on the bowling-green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossip in a Library] Reference

You know Frazer, the hautboy-player in Edinburgh -- he is here, instructing a band of music for a fencible corps quartered in this county.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference