The oboe is a double-reed instrument and member of the woodwind family. Oboes are usually made of wood, but there are also oboes made of synthetic materials. The oboe is commonly used in concert bands ...

All musical instruments require some TLC. For woodwind players ... most professional double-reed musicians - including oboists and bassoonists - make their own reeds, while clarinetists tend ...

The instrument, it declared, is “neither English nor a horn.” In fact, there’s little agreement about where the name of this double-reed woodwind, a member of the oboe family, came from ...

large double reeds, and no reeds at all. The French horn isn't even a woodwind instrument. But put them together and you hear a blend of tone and color that's unique and complex. (Soundbite of ...

According to the Philharmonic Orchestra, the oboe is a double-reed woodwind instrument that “has an even more ostentatious pride of place” in the music world. It is a startlingly familiar ...

Suona is a traditional Chinese double-reed woodwind instrument. Its loud, clear, bold and cheerful sound makes it one of the most popular musical instruments in China's rural areas. In the 3rd ...

The bassoon, a woodwind instrument that gained popularity in Europe in the eighteenth century, has its double reed attached by metal to a long folded wooden tube. It has become an essential ...

Djivan Gasparyan was a renowned Armenian musician and master of the duduk, a traditional Armenian double-reed woodwind instrument. He was born on October 12, 1928, in Solag, Armenia, and passed away ...

The clarinet is a musical instrument belonging to the woodwind family. It looks similar to an oboe, however it is a single-reed instrument, as opposed to the double-reed of an oboe, and has a very ...