Music teaching to children has got a thumbs-up from the school standards inspector, but while the violin, flute, guitar and recorder rank as the most popular instruments, the oboe is seen as uncool.

The co-founders who sold their last startup Anchor to Spotify are launching their next project: Oboe, an AI-powered educational app that enables anyone to create lightweight, flexible learning courses ...

The oboe has been a regular fixture in classical orchestras since the Baroque era – but its melancholic, singing tone is also an essential ingredient in some of the best-known pop bangers. Before we ...

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Nicholas Daniel is not what you call a star of the oboe. He gives the impression that he wouldn't ever want to be. And the oboe is one of those instruments that doesn't really breed star performers in ...

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Oboe is a newly launched AI-powered learning platform for personalized, multi-format courses. You can set up a curriculum from simple prompts and make deep dive lessons, audio lectures, games, and ...

Why do orchestras tune to an ‘A’? Orchestras always tune to concert pitch (usually A=440 Hertz, 440 vibrations per second). Conveniently, every string instrument has an A string. So it makes sense for ...