Cor anglais

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  Alto flute

  The alto flute is a type of Western concert flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is the next extension downward of the C flute after the flûte d'amour. It is characterized by its distinct, mellow tone in the lower portion of its range. The tube of the alto flute is considerably...
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  Piccolo oboe

  The piccolo oboe is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family, historically known as the oboe musette. (It should not be confused with the similarly named musette, which is bellows-blown and characterized by a drone.) Pitched in E-flat or F above the regular oboe (which is a C...
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  Oboe d'amore

  The oboe d'amore (oboe of love in Italian), less commonly oboe d'amour, is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family. Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the mezzo-soprano or alto of the oboe family. It is a...
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  Oboe da caccia

  The oboe da caccia (literally "hunting oboe" in Italian) is a double reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family, pitched a fifth below the oboe and used primarily in the Baroque period of European classical music. It has a curved tube and a brass bell, unusual for an oboe. Its range is close to...
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  Bass oboe

  The bass oboe or baritone oboe is a double reed instrument in the woodwind family. It is about twice the size of a regular (soprano) oboe and sounds an octave lower; it has a deep, full tone not unlike that of its higher-pitched cousin, the English horn. The bass oboe is notated in the treble clef,...
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  Piccolo

  The piccolo (Italian for small ) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The piccolo has the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written. This gave rise to the name "ottavino," the name by...
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  Woodwind instrument

  A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against an edge of, or opening in, the instrument, causing the air to vibrate within a resonator. Most of these instruments were originally made of wood, but some, such as the saxophone and most flutes, are...
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  Heckelphone

  The Heckelphone (German: Heckelphon) is a musical instrument invented by Wilhelm Heckel and his sons. Introduced in 1904, it is similar to the cor anglais (English horn). The Heckelphone is a double reed instrument of the oboe family, but with a wider bore and hence a heavier and more penetrating...

• Bass oboe

  The bass oboe, a relative of the oboe having the same note compass as the latter, is able to play any work written for oboe - it will, however, sound an octave lower. In addition a very small number of concertos have been written for the bass oboe and for a related instrument with the same range,...

• Contrabass oboe

  The contrabass oboe is a double reed woodwind instrument in the key of C, sounding two octaves lower than the standard oboe. Current research, in particular that by hautboy specialist Bruce Haynes, suggests that such instruments may have been developed in France as part of an original attempt to...