Oboe

This instrument is associated with Kneller Hall. It is an oboe made of cocus wood in three sections (top and middle body joints, and bell), with nickel-silver ferrules and keywork. It has seventeen (or eighteen) cylinder-cup open keys (two ring keys) mounted on posts with rods, with flat and needles springs attached to keys or posts. There is a double-touch key for the low B and alternative E-flat. Conical bore. The reed receiver is lined with metal. There is a nickel-silver thumbrest screwed onto body, and the tenons are wrapped in thread. Nominal pitch: C.