Oboe
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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Oboe Translations
oboe in Dutch is hobo
oboe in Spanish is oboe
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