Sentence examples for conical oboe from inspiring English sources
Shehnai, double-reed conical oboe of North India.
The shehnai of northern India, a conical oboe with a metal bell and six to eight finger holes, was traditionally associated with outdoor performance and largely with folk music; it is now played on the concert stage and in temple compounds.
In music for temple feasts, ragas are taken up by blaring conical oboes and drums; there are improvisations over drones, full of sliding and wriggling notes, that lead into jagged, breakneck melodies, buzzing with devotion.
Conical oboes were involved in the music that accompanied wedding and circumcision ceremonies.
The symmetry of the suona, a Chinese oboe whose conical shaft terminates in a bell section of brass, is evocative.
Processional military music (ch'wit'a) begins in the style seen in ancient drawings, with drums, gongs, and accompanying conch shell and straight trumpets, in addition to a "barbarian" oboe with a conical body.
Remember, the oboe is a conical shaped instrument.
The heckelphone is of conical bore (wider than the baritone oboe's) and has a bent metal crook and a wooden bell.
Oboe, French hautbois, German Oboe, treble woodwind instrument with a conical bore and double reed.
