oboe
双簧管,双簧
Definitions
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- : a woodwind instrument having a slender conical, tubular body and a double-reed mouthpiece.
- : a reed stop with a sound like that of an oboe.
Examples
For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.
Boring math geniuses, oboe-playing poets, and rich kids from New York need not apply.
Rich kids from New York, boring Asian math geniuses, and oboe-playing poets need not apply.
A musical prodigy, seven years old, who will order the fifth oboe out of the Albert Hall as soon as look at him.
It is the timid oboe that sounds the A for the orchestra to tune by.
The young man in the red velvet cap plays on the violoncello; the other on the oboe, of which only the reed is visible.
He also had lessons in the vestry room of the Octagon Chapel; and he acquired some skill upon the flute and oboe from Mr. Fish.
An oboe of ivory, carved by Anciuti in Milan, beginning of the eighteenth century.