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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 re…

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  1. 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.
  2. n. a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
  3. n:100 n. a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece