While the other children were studying violin, cello and trumpet, Harold and Ralph took up the oboe, criticized each other’s playing, wound up as scholarship students in Philadelphia’s Curtis ...

Have you ever wondered why the oboe begins the tuning ... One combination could have been a harpsichord, a few string players ...

So my parents very kindly went and bought me a violin so that I could partake ... Whilst in the Sefton Youth Wind Orchestra, I think I heard the oboe played properly for the first time.

The oboe is a double-reed instrument and member of the woodwind family. Oboes are usually made of wood, but there are also oboes made of synthetic materials. The oboe is commonly used in concert bands ...