Oboe

//ˈəʊbəʊ//

"Oboe" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Heck, with oboe players there are those who, rather than search for a reed that suits them, find it faster to make their own.

I need to get my oboe repaired.

I guess it's impossible for me to learn how to play the oboe.

I've always wanted to learn to play the oboe.

I must take my oboe for repair.

Tom blew his nose loudly during the oboe solo.

Tom played the oboe and Mary accompanied him on the piano.

What makes you think I want a new oboe?

I don't play the oboe.

I didn't know you played the oboe.

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Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.

This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicked Carabosse, with her ghoulish minions, and the Lilac Fairy, with her elves.

Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.

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