hautbois
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By her side a musician plays his hautbois to a dancing dog.
From The Story of Rouen by Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir
He himself carried a lighted waxen taper, bareheaded, with very great reverence, having with him the band and hautbois with several clarions and trumpets, which made a glorious show, so melodiously did they play.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert
There was a concert; in the course of which a hautbois concerto was so charmingly played, that I could have thought myself upon enchanted ground, had I had spirits more gentle to associate with.
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Burney, Fanny
The tubes of all the members of the hautbois family are straight in this drawing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Here the p�dalle is the bass pommer, or hautbois, and the sackbut is indicated as second bass or basse-contre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
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