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Re: EH vs CA

Author: mschmidt
Date: 2009-05-25 17:49

I hate both names. "Tenor oboe" is a little dull; "oboe da caccia" is already pretty much reserved for the baroque instrument of similar pitch but decidedly different construction. So let's have a contest to come up with a new name!

My entry in this contest is "floboe." It's pitched in f, it's lower than an oboe, and it's related to the oboe.

Does anyone here know Italian well? If the alto oboe is the oboe d'amore, the oboe of love, perhaps the tenor oboe should be the oboe d'bramosia, the oboe of longing. Somebody who knows Italian well could verify if that's really the word I'm looking for--I just used babelfish to come up with that one.

Mike

Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore

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