"The Rite of Spring" quartet

Usage examples of oboists.

The musicians were sitting cross-legged on a raised platform behind the buffet, a live ensemble of oboists, percussionists, bagpipers, and one-string violin players in the plaid tribal robes of the Islamic Kingdom of Scotland and Wales.

To the uninitiated there may not seem to be much difference, but my father happened to be an oboist of international reputation, against whom other oboists were measured.