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Offline Cecin_Koot

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Oboe Family
on: November 27, 2004, 02:46:57 AM
I know that the Oboe is at the top of the oboe family, and that cor anglias (or English Horn) and Oboe D, Amore are both in this family, but can somone please tell me the entire oboe family and their order from highest pitch to lowest pitch

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #1 on: November 27, 2004, 08:43:34 PM
And It would also be nice if you could tell me the pitch they are in aswell

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #2 on: November 27, 2004, 10:35:19 PM
Oboe in C
Oboe d’amore in A  (a minor third below the oboe)
Cor Anglais in F (a fifth below the oboe)
Bass oboe in C (an octave below the oboe)
Heckelphone in C (an octave below the oboe)

(These are the ones in normal use today – there are other, older instruments – mostly used in early music).

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #3 on: November 27, 2004, 10:42:50 PM
Thanks.  I have just used my friends computer, he has a program which has all these instruments and it said there was a baritone oboe as well.  It could go about 3 semitones higher.  Has anyone heard of this instrument?

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #4 on: November 27, 2004, 11:14:44 PM
Thanks.  I have just used my friends computer, he has a program which has all these instruments and it said there was a baritone oboe as well.  It could go about 3 semitones higher.  Has anyone heard of this instrument?

Yes.

Oboes both in Db and Eb (this one a minor third above the oboe – and possibly the one you are talking about) have been built by the French for military bands in the 19th century. But as far as I know these never really caught on, and are not in use today.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #5 on: November 28, 2004, 09:54:59 AM
Thanks. 

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #6 on: November 28, 2004, 11:45:03 AM
You are welcome. :)
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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #7 on: December 06, 2004, 08:45:52 AM
come on guys, don't let this topic die, dosn't anyone have anything else to say about the oboe family, or just the oboe? 

I am going to start a board on all woodwind instruments and their family.  I have already done flute, go to the topic Alto Flute for that, next is clarinet!

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #8 on: December 06, 2004, 12:42:15 PM
Are you sure you are in the right forum? ;)

Start a recorder thread and I will join in. :D

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. (Hunter Thompson)

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #9 on: December 06, 2004, 01:39:49 PM
Somewhere out there is a recorderforum.net where there is a member under the name Bernhard who makes very similar posts to the Bernhard on this forum with the minor difference that the word "piano" in his posts have been replaced by the word "recorder"...

Somewhere out there is an oboeforum.net where there is a member under the name Bernhard who makes very similar posts to the Bernhard on the recorder forum with the minor difference that the word "recorder" in his posts have been replaced by the word "oboe"...

Somewhere out there is a tubaforum.net where there is a member under the name Bernhard who makes very similar posts to the Bernhard on the oboe forum with the minor difference that the word "oboe" in his posts have been replaced by the word "tuba"...


Is there a connection to all of these similarities?  This is just one more bit of evidence that this elusive Bernhard is just a program to answer questions about music.  Could it be that Bernhard is another computer program like Eliza?


Somewhere out there is a sadism-masochismforum.net ...

 ;)

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #10 on: December 06, 2004, 10:42:15 PM
Masochist: "Beat me up, beat me up!"
Sadist: "No.

 ;D
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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #11 on: December 06, 2004, 11:08:59 PM
Masochist: "Beat me up, beat me up!"
Sadist: "No.

 ;D

How did you know? This is my all-time favorite joke of all times!

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #12 on: December 06, 2004, 11:24:02 PM
What about this one:

Optimist: "In the year 2010 everyone will only have s hit to eat."
Pessimist: "There won't be enough for everyone..."

 ;D
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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #13 on: January 16, 2005, 08:32:22 AM
Ok,  come on don't let this topic die, there must be more on the oboe to be said, and this is where it will be. 

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #14 on: January 24, 2005, 10:22:52 AM

Just as the oboe has the Heckelphone as it's bass equivalent, what is the Bassoon's treble equivalent?
Does anyone else here think the opening of Liszt's 'Orage' (AdP - Suisse No.5) sounds like the Gymnopedie from Hell?

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #15 on: January 26, 2005, 08:18:52 AM

Just as the oboe has the Heckelphone as it's bass equivalent, what is the Bassoon's treble equivalent?

exactly, go to the bassoon family post and you will see i have been asking i bit about the family.  I believe that there is 2 insturments out there called the Quint Bassoon and the Quart basson.  i have heard that they can play plenty above the C above middle C, i still need to do more research

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #16 on: February 06, 2005, 05:37:05 AM
so, anyone got anything to say about oboes? 

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Re: Oboe Family
Reply #17 on: May 30, 2005, 04:40:59 PM
Ya, I play the oboe. It's a gorgous instrument, produces such a lovely sound. The more traditional types are the best though. I don't like these new modern kinds which are slightly wider....they sound too much like clarinets. Needless to say, wood is always better than plastic. Mine is made from African Blackwood. It's a gorgeous oboe, better than anyone else's I know.
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