Definitions
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- noun Any of a family of
organ stops that containreeds . - noun Any of the, now
obsolete ,predecessors of theoboe orcor anglais .
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- noun a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
Etymologies
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Examples
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I rather pleased Jones by saying that the hautbois was the clarionet with a cold in its head, and the bassoon the same with a cold on its chest.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868
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The reeds were double "hautbois" reeds all set in a wooden stock or box within the bag; by means of regulators or slides, called _layettes_, moving up and down in longitudinal grooves round the circumference of the barrel, the length of the drone pipes could be so regulated that a simple harmonic bass, consisting mainly of the common chord, could be obtained.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The two musicians, having finished tuning their hautbois and flutes, began to rehearse.
La Sylphide Young Geoffrion 2009
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The two musicians, having finished tuning their hautbois and flutes, began to rehearse.
Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009
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There are no pressing questions about Bruckner performance like "With what shall we replace the Serpent?" or "What gives us the most authentic hautbois sound?"
Period-performance Bruckner Patrick J. Smith 2008
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There are no pressing questions about Bruckner performance like "With what shall we replace the Serpent?" or "What gives us the most authentic hautbois sound?"
Archive 2008-10-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008
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It is probable, however, that M. Thoinan, who makes this statement, has not considered the possibility of the word _musette_ applying in this case to the small rustic hautbois or _dessus de bombarde_, also written _muse_,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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_Hautbois de Poitou_, a hautbois having the reed enclosed in an air-chamber, just as is the case with the reeds of the bag-pipe.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Anticyclonic movement; "Depression" on the hautbois; increase of wind; then thunder, lightning, rain -- all the elements at it!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891 Various
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[16] See E. Thoinan, _Les Hotteterre et les Chèdeville, célèbres facteurs de flûtes, hautbois, bassons et musettes_ (Paris, 1894), p. 23.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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