Unlike the clarinet or saxophone, the oboe uses a double reed. The sound is made by blowing a stream of air into the mouthpiece (known as embouchure), and pressing down on the instrument's keys. This ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

A hole is bored into it, and it is placed near an air compressor that by day powers the shop’s tools. At night, the compressor is turned off, subjecting the wood to the night air of England.

Paul Laubin, a revered oboe maker who was one of the few remaining woodwind artisans to build their instruments by hand — he made so few a year that customers might have had to wait a decade to ...

Oboe playing, like bird watching and taffy pulling, is a passion that seems to run in families. The earliest famous oboe clan was that of Frenchman Jean Philidor, who played at the court of Louis ...

A Russian composer’s American premiere gives the oboe a star turn. Noseda led the National Symphony Orchestra in an all-Russian program featuring music by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Alexander ...