oboe

[US]/'əʊbəʊ/
[UK]/'obo/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a woodwind instrument with two reeds, also known as an oboe

Example Sentences

Gaetano Donizetti: Concertino for oboe and string orchestra in F Major.

The oboe tends to lose power in the upper register, but with the clarinet the opposite is the case.

good unisons are formed by flutes, oboes, and clarinets.

The part calls for a solo violin, two oboes, two flutes, one English horn, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, horn, percussion, two harps and strings.

The flutes sink into a dreamy melody, soon to be joined by the oboes and tremolando strings, the melody gyrating somnabulistically and evanescing pp after eight bars.

By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums.

Real-world Examples

Doesn't she play the oboe, or flute or something?

Source: Cambridge IELTS Listening Actual Test 11

Yeah, I could tell. Especially during that oboe solo.

Source: Before I Met You Selected

And I'm wondering are--is it the oboe maybe-- instead of the clarinet being sharp, the oboe's flat.

Source: Listening to Music (Video Version)

Andrew Price regularly plays oboe with several orchestras in Boston.

Source: VOA Special February 2023 Collection

" Can you play the oboe really well" ? -" Not quite, but I'm trying" .

Source: Engvid-Benjamin Course Collection

Then there are the woodwinds, the flute, oboe, clarinet, etc. only two or three of a kind.

Source: American Elementary School English 6

Bridge game, oboe, loom, or badminton set?

Source: CNN 10 Student English May 2017 Compilation

The bonobo played oboe, the ferret the flute, The jackal attacked the bassoon.

Source: Storyline Online English Stories

And away they all went, fiddles and oboes, as loudly as they could.

Source: The Story of Changchi Village

Is a cello or an oboe a better instrument to capture a comet's path?

Source: Science Quickly, from Scientific American

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