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Description: | The oboe occupied a prominent place in the Baroque orchestra. Unlike other wind instruments of the period, it had a complete high and low register, was capable of intense expression and could play both softly and loudly. The oboe is a direct descendant of the shawm, but it produces a much more gentle, refined sound. This is largely because the oboe player controls the reed by forming the lips tightly around
its body, while the reed of the shawm is allowed to vibrate more freely inside the player's mouth.
Oboe, stained boxwood, ivory mounts. Three keys (swallow-tail C and duplicated D sharp), flat, round, silver, mounted in turned rings. Twin holes for third and fourth fingers. Sounding length (length overall) is 59.6 cm. Warped, bell badly split. Stamped: T. Stanesby (Star mark).
The oboe was derived from the shawm, a strident double reed instrument that was often played outdoors. While the shawm player has little control of the reed, the oboe is designed to enable the player tohold the reed firmly between the lips, allowing both pitch and tone to be regulated. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | oboes 422.112 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds with conical bore wood metal silver vegetable fibre boxwood ivory | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12969 |
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