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  • Oboe is the jukebox in the sky that can store all library for safety, playback and move your music to any location for offline playback as well.

    Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives 2005

  • In a posting to his website late Tuesday, Robertson said he'd snapped up Johansen to work on a "significant new project" called Oboe at his digital music company MP3tunes.

    DVD Jon Lands Dream Job Stateside 2005

  • They were mostly getting "Oboe" as their results, although there were some others.

    What do you mean, French horn?! Jessica 2006

  • They are style "Oboe", size 8, ivory colored, and have never been worn.

    Weddingbee 2009

  • They are style "Oboe", size 8, ivory colored, and have never been worn.

    Weddingbee 2009

  • 1943: Bomber Command demonstrated its rapidly improving ability to hit even targets completely covered by cloud at night, thanks to precision bombing aids such as Oboe, with an effective attack on Bochum which caused severe damage to the town centre.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • Oboe solos and certain distinctive kinds of flute writing are highly suggestive of Arab instruments, as are various cymbals and other percussion instruments imitative of Arab and later East Asian music.

    Go East, Monsieur Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

  • If I do this, I can get a Letterman Jacket … I really want it … If you have any other suggestions, we will be using an Oboe, Flute, and Percussionist.

    Movie Sheet | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • “I know you can do it, Oboe,” Donovan kept repeating with his soft, soothing voice.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Was Morricone's caramel-sweet "Gabriel's Oboe," the theme from the film "The Mission," really any lighter than Rachmaninoff's singing pop-like tune in the Andante of his cello and piano sonata, at the end of the program?

    Music review: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott at the Kennedy Center Anne Midgette 2010

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