Introducing the Baroque Oboe 

.....This Lady right here.... Is an absolute musical genius. She is one incredible player, and very, very schooled.

This whole series is so wonderful. Love the baroque period instruments.

Baroque is my number one as regards music. It's what I usually listen to. Thanks to your demonstration and that of Haydn's oboe demo, I now know I love and adore the baroque oboe over others. The sound is so much more sweet, mellow and richer, deeper. The oboe in the Brandenburgs is one of my faves! Beautiful played! Thank you! I feel a little less ignorant now! 😊😊😊

Bluegrass guitar player her, but I love this series on Baroque instruments. The softer sound of the wooden instruments is particularly nice.

That's mutually keyed for left or right handed play. That's wonderful!

“The lack of keys should never be seen as a disadvantage” *Middle School Trumpet ego inflates*

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Those 3 keys are Left Hand D Sharp, Right Hand D sharp, & for both hands Middle C. The lowest note that this oboe can play is Middle C. Modern Oboes can go 2 more notes lower down to Low Bb, although they now make versions that can go another note Lower down to Low A and even more so to Low F (etc.).

Very nice introduction to the baroque oboe. I examined some baroque oboe fingering charts and noticed that the fingering is very similar to that of the baroque recorder.

I honestly LOVE the sounds of the baroque instruments far above the sounds of the modern...

2:08 I love parts being written based around the instrument's limitations/technicalities

Five minutes of pure enjoyment, listening to your description. Thank you so much.

Beautiful instrument and informative video. One good thing about the baroque oboe is you don't hear that irritating key clacking.

Beautiful sounding instrument. Very instructive input, especially your thoughts on the missing keys, thank you very much!

Thumbs up if you're watching in 1718!

Thank you so much for this beautifully clear and eloquent enlightenment. I just inherited my father’s baroque oboe and you have given me my first lesson in what that actually means.

Again, thank you all for this wonderful insight (or in-hearing??) of orchestral instruments in the past. All of the oboe related programs I have seen so far, model the softer, mellower sound quality, compared to some players of modern oboes. Personally, I always leaned toward that side of the modern instruments' capabilities, depending upon the music. Thank you.

ok, now I definitely want one, you really gor me at the musical advantages of the lack of keys

2:07 What happened was that as they added more keys, a lot of tone colors have been diminished which resulted in a fully equalized sound throughout every note, it's not really supposed to be a bad thing these days, and they even make Low A Oboes. Actually a lot of Modern Oboes aren't fully equalized on every note, they made each tone hole a different size to compensate for a lot of the tone colors that have diminished.

Love what you are doing! So glad I've found your channel.

I love the sound of this instrument! It's a pure baroque sound for me.

Lovely, I am not a musician but I am loving these videos. Fascinating.

"Baroque Oboema"

Baroque oboists were smart guys with tuners, so they could tune everywhere on 415 hz (from Paris to Leipzig to Venice). They stuck to their roots and if some instrument maker accidentally tried to fix a new key, p.e. to play C#', they would strap it immediately. At the arrival of Classical Oboe they would emigrate oversea, calling themselves Hobos now. Shouldn't we think about it???

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Some people like to play them in 440 if they're in a bigger area. 415 means that the instrument transposes down a half step from concert pitch.

...the oboe accompaniment in the aria of Bach's Cantata #1 is exquisite. when performed on a baroque instrument.

great job explaining and playing this.

I understand why the baroque oboe is no more used in the modern orchestral music, which needs more homogeneous sound independent of the pitch or tonality. Thanks for the compact and understandable explanation.

Thank you so much! So informative

Thank you for pronouncing “Bach” correctly.

Oh it has such a rich and beautiful sound…

The one thing she should have discussed was how the upper register is produced without any octave key/s. The Baroque Oboist apparently does it all on the reed itself. It's a real oversight that she didn't mention this.

Its always an intriguing one to think how far the instrument's sound influenced the compositions?

I usually hate oboes but this is such a sweet instrument. I love it.

Why people dislike this?? This Is amazing 😁

I believe the first excerpt she played was Brandenburg Concerto no. 1: Allegro II.

Who made this instrument? And which maker is it copied after? This video inspired me to start playing baroque oboe, which is enriching my life immessureble! Thank you very much! (I am playing a copy after stanesby ,made by wolfgang kube in berlin,if youre wondering)

Wonderful!

Lovely video,🌹 great info👍

Is this in the same key as the normal oboe?

Very interesting and educational..

thank you, my sampled French Oboe sounds quite 'harsh'; I would have to apply a filter to emulate the softer sound to which you refer; but of course there is no way i can trills on a keyboard, sounds most peculiar.

Boxwood is softer than Blackwood? If so, not by much, as Boxwood is also very very dense.

What is the opening excerp? Sounds like Bach? - I can't name it though!

nice information,

I was wondering if there were a recorder-esque instrument with swappable components to mimic the sound of sax, oboe and recorder. I am a multi instrumentalist and composer but never put time into the winds and want to experiment with something more than synth and to practice the required embouchure/bugle etc. Thank you in advance.

The first three notes of the video sounded so much like a trumpet that I had to check to be sure I was watching the same video I clicked on.

Where can we buy?

Was this what Haydn composed his concerto for? I suppose by that time there were more keys to it? Does anyone know of a recording of Haydn concerto on period instrument?

Did they have lathes back on the day?

my oboe fell down and baroque

I personally loved Bach's BWV1060 the most.

Do I see a wax-filled hole above the first finger hole? I do like the mutual keys. My son is very left-handed, and retraining him to right for certain things...well, I don't like that. I went through that as a tot.

What is the piece that she's playing at the beginning?

Is it just as effective against sleep apnea as a modern oboe?

Is this the same instrument as hautbois?

is there a was to make these

Introducing the baroque obama

I Baroque mine when my doggo ate it

Where can I get an oboe like that?

They told me about an oboe... any kind... l would think of 1 guy..... i mean one genius, Tomaso giovani Albinoni...

Hi Ms.Borros

It looks like a lamp. Like, the stick part of the lamp that holds the bulb.

Oboes developed keys latest. Recorders always get forgotten!! Haha. Still not really 'modernized' .

Why is James Dyson talking to me about an Oboe

She's talking like the queen

Sounds like a reed recorder.

if we look bach (hahahah, very funny...), bach had a case with his sister. o_o

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just like the Philharmonia instrument videos

I didn't know Ellen played the oboe

Bach's Oboe

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Baroque? Don't blame me, I didn't barake it.

For me sound less nasal. I like this instrument more than modern ones. But china oboes cost around $400 half of others. I am concern about chinese instruments they reputation: cheap and bad.

And you thought oboists were rare

Modern musicians tend to be a twitchy, uninformed lot. Very few modern trumpet players know they're playing a long-model cornet, very few Horn players know that playing with the hand in the bell is an anachronistic affectation, very few string players have any experience playing on gut strings or know that pre-1830 violins had a shorter neck, or that older stringed instruments had up to 7 strings. Bach wrote for the 5-string viola and cello. Old guns had some interesting characteristics too. For instance, you could add more or less powder, or use more than one musket ball at a time. That's how Wolf's men cut Montcalm's to pieces on the Plains of Abraham. History is chock-full of such interesting things.

So many Bachophiles in these videos lol.

Miserable Frasierung, Bloowing in a reed. You don,t know the morphologie of the Text. . L:Varcol

i thot she was a man

A baroque instrument doesn't sound. 😆

Wonderful!