hautbois
Americannoun
plural
hautboisExample Sentences
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If he saw there any one playing on the hautbois, the rebeck, or the bagpipes, he would, for a patard, have them teach him the way to make music on these instruments.
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They must have had a busy time together, for he had lessons from Zachau not only in organ playing, but in harmony, counterpoint, canon, and fugue; and in hautbois, violin, and harpsichord playing.
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Sometimes, and more than once too often, he composed, to use his own expression, "by the leeside of a bowl of punch, which had overset every mortal in company, except the hautbois and the muse."
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The tubes of all the members of the hautbois family are straight in this drawing.
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When the author indicated the altos with the basses, the hautbois with the violins, these copyists undertook to make the necessary modifications.
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