noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
play
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There couldn't be many Charlotte Rossignols who happen also to play the oboe .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Congress of Passions was written in 1994 for counter-tenor, piano and oboe .
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He was a nice chap called Roland who entertained us with such finesse on his flute and oboe .
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The oboe tends to lose power and body in its upper register, but with the clarinet the opposite is the case.
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The strings unfold a sequence of shivery chords, and voice and oboe briefly entwine before the singer is left in solitude.
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There is more dicey woodwind intonation in the Eroica, and the oboe tone in the Funeral March curdles alarmingly.
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You can not imagine the glorious effect of a symphony with flutes, oboes and clarinets.