Piccolo oboe

A musette or Piccolooboe is tuned to D, Eb, F, or G variant of the oboe. It is shorter than an oboe, her mood is correspondingly higher.

She was a fashionable instrument of the Baroque period and existed at this time in on D and Eb tuned variants that have been made ​​especially in Paris. Later came the Musette largely forgotten, but a tuned in G version was still made ​​in the 19th century, which was used among others by the conductor Louis Antoine Jullien in his orchestra to imitate the sound of Scottish bagpipes. The Paris oboe maker Frédéric Triébert tried in the 19th century, a reintroduction of the older tuned to Musette It remained so but unsuccessful. In 1931, the company Wilhelm Heckel in Germany for a short time a musette ago.

In the second half of the 20th century, interest in the Musette increased again slightly. It was played among others by the oboist Lothar Faber and Ernest Rombout and modern composers such as Paolo Renosto and Bruno Maderna they have used in some of their works.

The Musette is also used in special orchestras for double-reed instruments ( band de Hautbois ) again.

Contemporary oboe manufacturers who build musettes, the companies F. Lorée and Marigaux from France ( tuned to F ) and Fratelli Patricola from Italy ( voted in it ).