hi. can anyone tell me the difference between an oboe, an oboe d`amour, and a cor anglais?

By the way, what is an embochure? alot of these forums talk about it, but ive never been told because i learn from Tune a Day oboe books, but my teacher who teaches me with it isnt actually an oboist.

well, an oboe is well... an oboe.
an oboe d`amour is a different version of the oboe that plays at a 3rd below the oboe... i think.
a cor anglais is also known as an english horn and plays at a 5th below an oboe.
honestly i don`t really know that much......but i hope that i managed to help.(^.^)

oh ya about the embrouchure.....
it is well, ur lipping.

First of all, having a non oboist teacher is not the brightest thing to do. I did that the first month I played. He taught me a scale, but that it, so really, you need to find a different teacher pronto.

About your question, there are five different instruments in the oboe family. Ranging from highest to lowest: Oboe, Oboe d`amore, English Horn, Bass Oboe, and Hecklephone. Personally Ive only seen or played oboe and English Horn. My Full Symphony class badly needs a Bass Oboe though, as we are playing the planets.

About your other question, embouchre is you lips, how you roll them in and buzz. closely related, reeds have different sides, the one that is longer should be facign away from you.

I dunno if i was any help, but there.

-Nikki Huntington

Also the oboe d`amor has a differently formed bell which not only make the sound darker but also somewhat softer, cleaner. I do prefer the d`amor over the ordinary oboe.
By the way, what is a bass oboe? Never heard of it before.

Well if we want to be absolutely complete about it, the oboe family ranges from highest to lowest:

Oboe Musette in Eb (usually)
Oboe
Oboe d`amore in A
Cor Anglais (English horn) in F
Bass Oboe/Heckelphone

The oboe d`amore was used a lot more in Baroque music, but fell into relative obscurity by the time the Classical Period rolled around, having been supplanted by the oboe we know today in C. It enjoyed a little bit of a revival in some modern works, Richard Strauss I believe employed it somewhere, but really it is still greatly overshadowed by the oboe and English horn. If you want to hear an oboe d`amore, I`m sure if you look long enough on the web, you can find some sound bytes; I have before at least. Probably the most well known oboe d`amore part that is still performed today is in Bach`s Mass in B minor during the <i>Qui sedes dextram patris</i>. This is an absolutely beautiful section of that work which you should seek out and hear just for its own sake, the fact that the oboe d`amore part is so cool notwithstanding.

The Bass oboe is in C, pitched an octave below the regular oboe. It has a tone quality not unlike the English horn, but darker (if you can believe it). The Heckelphone is not the same thing as a bass oboe, but rather it is another instrument which although pitched in the same key as the bass oboe, has been significantly redesigned to overcome some of the problems associated with that instrument (i.e. projection, intonation, agility, etc.)

Heh, alright apparently I should`ve looked at these little notes next to the message box that say NO HTML codes.

To be specific. The musette comes in Eb from Patricola and from F. Loree in F and in D from Marigaux but Marigaux only offers it in grenidillia while Patricola offeres it in grenidillia and rosewood as a special order. Loree offeres it in violetwood, rosewood and grenidilia and Glotin makes reeds for them all but you need to be specific about the key.
John Tim Chance
Owner of patricola Eb in Rosewood and Grenidillia and Heckelphone and Loree bass oboe in violetwood and fossatti bass oboe in cocobolo

the diffrence is the oboe d`amore is in the key of (A),uses a bocal has smaller reed.Basicly the oboe d`amore is like a smaller english horn

*drool* i`ve been looking for a musette for the longest time. . .I would love to play one

*drool* i`ve been looking for a musette for the longest time. . .I would love to play one