hautboy

How To Use hautboy In A Sentence

• For a very small addition to his stipend, Schmucke played the viola d'amore, hautboy, violoncello, and harp, as well as the piano, the castanets for the _cachucha_, the bells, saxhorn, and the like. Cousin Pons
• Other timbres no longer carry their original significance: cornets for dignitaries not high enough in rank to merit trumpets, hautboys for banquets, consorts of flutes or recorders for rituals of death and transfiguration.
• Most organs have a similar group of standard stops -- trumpet, oboe (hautboy) and violin -- but many larger instruments have their own distinctive touches thrown into the mix. In Washington for convention, organists pull out all the stops
• His voice had been likened to an oboe, the Elizabethan hautboy.
• Three nights later three violins, a flute, a guitar, and a hautboy began another serenade. Ursula
• But — and mark you, the leap paralyzes one — crossing the Western Ocean, in New York City, hautboy, or ho-boy, becomes the name by which the night-scavenger is known. Local Color
• In English it becomes hautboy, a wooden musical instrument of two-foot tone, I believe, played with a double reed, an oboe, in fact. Local Color
• The music consists of the biniou or bagpipe, and the flageolet or hautboy, sometimes with the addition of a drum. Brittany & Its Byways
• “No,” answered he, pointing to the room in which was erected the new gallery, and whence, as he spoke, issued the sound of a hautboy, “there is a flute playing there already.” Cecilia
• When their tread had died away from the ear, and the wind swept over the isolated grave with its customary siffle of indifference, Lot Swanhills turned and spoke to old Richard Toller, the hautboy player. A Changed Man