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The **oboe** is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois", "hoboy", or "French hoboy".[1] The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian //oboè//, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word //hautbois//, a compound word made of //haut// ("high, loud") and //bois// ("wood, woodwind"). A musician who plays the oboe is called an oboist. Careful manipulation of embouchure and air pressure allows the player to express timbre and dynamics.

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