oboe d'amore as well as the taille and oboe da caccia, Baroque antecedents of the cor anglais. Less common is the bass oboe (also called baritone oboe)...

Rackett Recorder Oboe d'amore Oboe da caccia Contrabassoon Taille Cor anglais Baroque trumpet Cornett Serpent Natural horn Slide trumpet Post horn Natural...

player's lips. This family includes instruments such as the oboe, cor anglais (also called English horn), and bassoon, and many types of shawms throughout...

mezzo-soprano of the oboe family, between the oboe (soprano) and the cor anglais or English horn (alto). It is a transposing instrument, sounding a minor...

Mizmar (Arabic nations) Nadaswaram Oboe Piccolo oboe Oboe d'amore Cor anglais (i.e. English horn) Oboe da caccia Bass oboe Contrabass oboe Piri (Korea)...

family, the reed for the oboe is quite different from that for the cor anglais (English horn). Oboe reeds are usually 7 mm (0.3 in) in width, while bassoon...

piercing sound than that of the cor anglais. Today, the instrument is rare outside period ensembles, and a cor anglais is commonly substituted. However,...

not more than about fifty musicians. Orchestras that specialize in the Baroque music of, for example, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel...

brass bell, unusual for an oboe. Its range is close to that of the cor anglais—that is, from the F below middle C (notated C4 but sounding F3) to the...

called the cuvée taille, a name used in the Baroque era for an open belled variant of the Baroque Cor anglais The name used in France for the vocal timbre...