Damn it, I want to see Gonzalo's oboe again. The last time we had parsnips they were much too tough, and the finger holes didn't help a bit.
>I think David was kidding about the oboe (hence the :) sign). The >objects Dan describes do not resemble any oboe da caccia I've seen. >The goldish-colored "oboe" part looks like a pestle, and the >similarly-colored round object is more than likely the mortar or >similar dish. It can't be the bell of a wind instrument (the oboe >da caccia is so named because it has a flaring bell resembling a >horn, or "corno da caccia"), because it has a bottom, which would of >course stop the air flow completely and cause the oboist to explode. > >In any event, Linard apparently died around 1645, before the >Hotteterres developed the oboe, and probably 50 or 60 years before >the oboe da caccia. > >David may have been noticing that the parsnip at the lower right >edge of the table appears to have finger holes like a wind >instrument. But of course the parsnip was a single-reed instrument. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
