Oboe: 21st Century Oboe — Christopher Redgate
“On this site you will find information about the oboist Christopher Redgate, about many aspects of performing and composing for the oboe today and about the Howarth-Redgate oboe.”
Oboe: An Overview — Orchestre Métropolitain
“The oboe is normally made of grenadilla, a very dense wood, and its keys are made of metal. Like the English horn and bassoon, one produces a sound with an ancient and very peculiar invention: the double reed!”
Oboe: Beginner Guide — Music & Arts
“The oboe reed is the part of your instrument that generates sound when you blow through it. The reed fits into the hole at the top of the oboe.”
Oboe: Instrument Guide — Yamaha
“Oboes, whose name comes from the French for "high-pitched wood," are excellent for solo performances with many notes in high ranges. The oboe is extremely difficult to play.”
Oboe: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Oboe: Overview — Bloomingdale School of Music
“The oboe, a double reed instrument in the woodwind family, is one of the most beautiful, important, and unique musical instruments. With a long history dating back as far as ancient Greece, it has developed through the centuries into one of the most challenging and distinct instruments in the modern orchestra.”
Oboe: Overview — Grove Music Online
“Generic term in the system of Hornbostel and Sachs for an aerophone with a double (concussion) reed (for detailed classification see Aerophone). The name is taken from that of the principal treble double-reed instrument of Western art music.”
Oboe: Playing Techniques — Vienna Symphonic Library
“The oboe is an agile instrument (although by no means as agile as the flute) and can in principle play trills, arpeggios etc. But due to its sound characteristics and pitch it was used more as a melodic instrument in the past.”
Oboe: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Oboe: Two Worlds of Sound — Vienna Symphonic Library
“The appearance of the two instruments differs in that the French oboe has a long, thin tube of plain design with a gently flaring bell whereas the Viennese oboe still possesses the characteristics of the classical oboe: the shorter, thick-walled tube; the baluster on the upper joint; the widening at the tenon joints and the bell-shaped bell.”
Oboe — A Brief History of the Oboe — Danny Cruz
“The oboe is a staple of Western art music and the most distinct solo sound in the orchestra, but cultures around the world have been using soprano double reed instruments for music production for millennia.”
Oboe — Baroque oboe — Grinnel College
Grinnel College Musical Instrument Collection
“The Baroque oboe is an end-blown conical-bore double-reed aerophone in use in Europe since the 17th century. The replica Baroque oboe pictured and discussed on this page is modeled on surviving instruments from roughly 1690-1790.”
Oboe — Shawm — Grinnel College
Grinnel College Musical Instrument Collection
“The shawm in use in Europe during the Medieval and Renaissance periods is an end-blown conical-bore double-reed aerophone. The instrument pictured here is a modern replica of shawms used in the 14th century or earlier, as reconstructed from iconographic sources.”