1) Aerophone with keys 2) AKA hautboy 3) Alto woodwind 4) An aerophone 5) An ill wind 6) An ill wind instrument 7) An ill wind woodwind 8) An ill woodwind 9) An ill-wind 10) An orchestra might tune to it 11) An orchestra tunes to one 12) Baby bassoon 13) Bach concerto instrument 14) Band instrument
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1) Double reed 2) Hautbois 3) Hautboy 4) Heckelphone 5) Reed 6) Shawm
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a single-rank reed stop used as both a solo stop and a chorus reed
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Oboe and OBOE have several meanings: ...
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The oboe oʊ is a family of double reed woodwind musical instruments. The most commonly used variant, the standard oboe, plays in the treble or soprano range. It is made from a wooden tube roughly 65 cm (25½ inches) long, with metal keys, a conical bore and flared bell. Sound is produced by blowing into the reed and vibrating a column of air. The...
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[navigation] Oboe was a British aerial blind bombing targeting system in World War II, based on radio transponder technology. Prior to a mission, a circle was drawn around one of the Oboe transmitters so that it passed over the selected target. The bombers, one at a time, would then attempt to fly along this path towards the target. The Obo...
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This was another ingenious bombing guidance system but this was controlled from the ground. Radio beacons transmitted a 'guide-path' signal which the aircraft crew could receive as a series of morse codes; dashes if the plane was to the right of the exact flight path and dots if they were to the left of it. If the plane on the correct target flight...
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• (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
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(from the article `air warfare`) From late 1943 the RAF used two radar-beam systems called Gee and Oboe to guide its Lancaster and Halifax bombers to cities on the Continent. In ...
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treble woodwind instrument with a conical bore and double reed. Though used chiefly as an orchestral instrument, it also has a considerable solo ... [5 related articles]
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British radar-based blind bombing system of World War II adopted by the RAF 1942. It used two transmitters based in the UK; one tracked the bomber, guiding it on a course across the target. The...
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O'boe noun [ Italian , from French
hautbois . See
Hautboy .]
(Mus.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a doubl...
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Oboe was a British radar-based blind bombing system of the Second World War adopted by the RAF in 1942. It used two transmitters based in the UK; one tracked the bomber, guiding it on a course across the target. The other also tracked the bomber and ordered it to drop its bombs at the computed bomb-release point. Since accuracy was of a very high o...
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The oboe is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. It is a double-reed wind instrument with a wood body and narrow conical bore invented by the French musicians Jean Hotteterre and Michel Philidor, who modified the louder shawm (the prevailing double-reed instrument) for indoor use. Their oboe, called hautbois, as was the shawm, had a narrowe...
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[
n] - a slender double-reed instrument
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oboe An English tramp, a hobo.
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Code name for British radio-navigational aid used by RAF bombers
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hautboy noun a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
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Double-reed woodwind instrument with a conical bore and moderately flared bell, descended from the shawm. It is one of the four instruments that make up the woodwind section of the orchestra. The oboe was developed by the Hotteterre family of instrument makers in about 1700 and was played in the ...
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