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Answer for the clue "Orchestra member ", 4 letters:
oboe

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Usage examples of oboe.

The swell organ has bourdon, open diapason, salicional, aeoline, stopped diapason, gemshorn, flute harmonique, flageolet, cornet--3 ranks, 183,--cornopean, oboe, vox humana--61 pipes each.

The kanoon and oud, both string instruments, combined with drums, violin, and the wooden claves to add depth, while the alternately feminine high and masculine low tones of the oboe provided a decidedly sexual connotation.

The retinue of Croton swelled from hour to hour until it formed a long double line that wound its way through the camp, at first to the sound of oboes and kettledrums only, but then a sort of choric chanting was developed, certain phrases were shouted loudly and repeatedly.

But more probably it was one of the older reed instruments of the oboe family, the pommer or possibly a schalmei.

Besides the gallant Ahab, the three companions sat puffing on the bow, Jonathan tut-tutting over the loss of the oboe gun.

The main features of the planning were long, northerly outward and return routes over Denmark and the Baltic which would be well away from most of the German night-fighter bases but would also reduce the bomb tonnage carried by the raiding force, and raids by Oboe Mosquitoes on four of the most important night-fighter airfields in Holland, this support being provided for the first time.

Reading him somehow suggests hearing a Bach mass rescored for two fifes, a tambourine in B, a wind machine, two tenor harps, a contrabass oboe, two banjos, eight tubas and the usual clergy and strings.

What chiefly lives in it are certain poignant phrases, certain eloquent bars, a glowing, winey bit of color here, a velvety phrase for the oboe or the clarinet, a sharp, brassy, pricking horn-call, a dreamy, wandering melody for the voice there.

I got my oboe and went to the room of Herr Hummel and from there we made our way, unseen by any, to the summer-house.

An autumn wind whistled through the upper towers of the sculpted sanctuary like the mournful notes of the shehnai, a Hindustani instrument not unlike an oboe.

She focused on voices as if they were music: the measured sonority of Tintinnabulum, the staccato excitement of Faber, the seesawing oboe tones of the bio-philosopher whose name Bellis could never remember.

Teutonic bore, that an unstated number of recorders would then perform some suitable item, and that at some later time Johns might be expected to produce music from his oboe.

Moving a hundred miles an hour faster and turning to approach from the north, the Mosquitoes - with their secret Oboe device - would pass over Krefeld three minutes earlier.

Oboe Mosquito arrived exactly on time over Krefeld and marked the real target with four perfectly placed reds.

The instruments were most probably lutes, viols, flute, oboe, and possibly bag-pipe, hurdy-gurdy and little organ.