Referring Clues

• Mitch Miller's instrument
• Its pitch is high
• ___ d'amore
• Relative of the English horn
• Double-reed instrument
• Cousin of a clarinet
• Ensemble part
• Woodwind
• "O" in old radio lingo
• Clarinet cousin
• Bassoon's cousin
• Orchestra part
• Cousin of a bassoon
• Double-reed woodwind
• Cousin of the English horn
• Philharmonic part
• Word from the French for "high wood"
• Sweet-toned musical instrument
• Wind quintet member
• Kind of concerto
• Hand-held musical instrument
• Double reed
• Long, slender instrument
• It's in the winds
• Instrument that's blown into
• Shawm descendant
• Concerto instrument
• Slender reed
• Reed section member
• Snake charmer, in musician's slang
• Cousin of the bassoon
• Organ stop
• Tubular instrument
• Instrument played with the mouth
• Kin to a clarinet
• Wind instrument
• Long, thin musical instrument
• Wind in a pit
• Woodwind instrument
• Certain band member
• Reed instrument
• Clarinet's kin
• It has finger holes
• Reed in a pit
• Certain 55-Across
• Symphony member
• Orchestra seat
• Relative of an English horn
• Plaintive woodwind
• Musical instrument that's blown into
• Slender instrument
• Old radio word for the letter O
• Certain woodwind
• ___ family, including bassoons and English horns
• Wind that can be piercing
• Wind up on stage?
• Penetrating reed
• Cousin of an English horn
• Penetrating wind
• Double-reeded woodwind
• Slender woodwind
• Bassoon's little cousin
• Tuning note instrument
• See 27-Across
• Peter and the Wolf's "duck"
• Preceder of Peter in a phonetic alphabet
• "O" in a phonetic alphabet
• The duck in "Peter and the Wolf"
• It's blown
• Letter before Peter in old radio lingo
• Certain aerophone
• Poulenc's "Sonata for ___ and Piano"
• Chinese horn, e.g.
• Concert wind
• Instrument with a conical bore
• Radio letter between Nan and Peter
• One of the winds
• Baby bassoon?
• Melancholy woodwind
• Light wind?
• One found in the woods
• Wind with a wide range
• "O" in the old Army phonetic alphabet
• Cousin of a heckelphone
• Instrument held with two hands
• Kind of reed
• Instrument you blow into
• English horn's cousin
• Reedy instrument
• "An ill wind that nobody blows good"
• Orchestral "tuning fork"
• Woodwind lower than a piccolo
• "Peter and the Wolf" duck
• Bassoon's kin
• It's seen among the reeds
• High wind?
• Slender woodwind instrument
• Symphony reed
• It's two octaves above the bassoon
• Bassoon's little brother
• Bassoon cousin
• It's found in the reeds
• English horn relative
• Slender black reed
• Penetrating wind instrument
• Chamber music instrument
• Duck in "Peter and the Wolf"
• Nash's "ill wind that no one blows good"
• Wide-range reed
• Wind quartet member
• Handel wrote six concerti for it
• Solo instrument in a Strauss concerto
• Orchestra tuner
• Melancholy instrument
• Orchestra member
• Orchestral reed
• "Peter and the Wolf" woodwind
• English horn, for one
• Wind up on the stage?
• English horn cousin
• Clarinet kin
• Reed, or place for a reed
• Hecklephone's woodwind cousin
• Bassoon's relative
• Instrument to which an orchestra tunes
• Instrument with keys
• Instrument with finger holes
• "High wood" you can find among the reeds
• Wind in the orchestra pit
• High-pitched woodwind
• Wind on stage
• Shawm successor
• Orchestra instrument
• Wind ensemble instrument
• Instrument in the woodwind section
• Reed section instrument
• ___ d'amore (reed instrument)
• It's blown in the winds
• Duck's instrument in "Peter and the Wolf"
• Musical instrument in WWII phonetic alphabets
• Bassoon relative
• Orchestra pitch-setter
• Instrument in NATO's phonetic alphabet
• Concert woodwind
• Albrecht Mayer's instrument
• Woodwind with a range of nearly three octaves
• Pit reed
• Relative of the bassoon
• Symphonic wind
• The duck, in "Peter and the Wolf"
• A musette pipe is a small one
• Instrument in a wind quintet
• Orchestral tuner
• High-pitched aerophone
• It's derived from the French word "hautbois," meaning "high wood"
• It sounds similar to a harmoniphon
• Musette pipe, e.g.
• Piffero's descendant
• Its keys are usually silver-plated
• ___ da caccia (cor anglais forerunner)
• Bombarde relative
• ___ d'amour
• Commonly seen wood
• Instrument for someone who knows how to lip reeds
• Clarina's cousin
• It's blown in the wind section
• Contrabassoon's little cousin
• An English horn is a fifth lower than it
• Heckelphone relative
• Harmoniphon soundalike
• Tenoroon's little cousin
• Orchestra's tuning instrument
• Wind quintet instrument
• ___ d'amore (instrument)
• Cor anglais cousin
• ___ d'amour: baroque instrument
• Philharmonic reed
• One of the reeds
• An orchestra tunes to one
• It has about a three-octave range
• Bassoon's smaller cousin
• ___ d'amore
• Orchestral wind
• Wind in the orchestra
• Concert reed
• "Ill wind that no one blows good": Nash
• Wind on stage, maybe
• A woodwind
• Orchestra wind
• "Peter and the Wolf" duck
• Orchestra woodwind
• "Bolero" instrument
• Bassoon kin
• Its "A" tunes the orchestra
• Orchestral instrument
• It has 20+ keys
• "Peter and the Wolf" instrument
• Clarinet's neighbor
• Where reeds are found
• Clarinet relative
• One of the woodwinds
• Clarinet look-alike
• Wind-quintet member
• What an orchestra tunes to
• Wind-quartet member
• Word from the French for "high wood"
• ___ d'amore (baroque instrument)
• Hautboy
• Philharmonic instrument
• Heckelphone's woodwind cousin
• Mitch Miller found it instrumental
• Melancholy sounding woodwind
• Woodwind with a conical bore
• Chamber music instrument, sometimes
• Treble clef woodwind
• Pastoral woodwind
• Shawm's descendant
• It's among the reeds
• "An ill wind that nobody blows good"
• Classical instrument
• Orchestra piece
• Conical reed
• Orchestral member
• Concerto instrument, perhaps
• Heckelphone kin
• Wind in the pit?
• Heckelphone's cousin
• Shawm's follower
• Reed under Ozawa
• A double reed
• You must reed this?
• Instrument usually made from African blackwood
• It is instrumental to Mitch Miller
• High-pitched instrument
• It's instrumental
• Double-reed orchestra instrument
• Certain chamber music instrument
• Orchestral tuning instrument
• Slender double-reed instrument
• Shawm relative
• It's found among the reeds
• Shawm's modern relative
• Instrument made from grenadilla
• Reed, or a place for one
• "O" example in a children's book
• Wind ensemble member
• Reed under Maazel
• Soprano-range woodwind
• Reed under Muti
• Woodwind member
• Orchestral wind instrument
• Clarinet duet partner, perhaps
• It's instrumental to Solti
• Plaintive reed
• Orchestras tune to this
• Solti found it instrumental
• Deliverer of a high pitch
• English horn's kin
• High-pitched reed
• Instrument whose name derives from "high wood"
• Woodwind quintet member
• Orchestral pitch setter
• Instrument once called the hautboy
• High woodwind
• Reed in an orchestra
• Double-reeded wind
• Slender wind
• High-pitched wind
• Symphony instrument
• Wind in a conservatory
• Wind in the pit
• Double reed instrument
• Instrument an orchestra tunes to
• Member of a pit crew?
• Conical woodwind
• Nash's "ill wind that nobody blows good"
• English-horn kin
• A reed
• Treble woodwind
• O, in old radio lingo
• Reedy woodwind
• Clarinet's cousin
• Instrument for Johann Jacob Bach
• Woodwind with good range
• Blown orchestral instrument
• Letter before Peter in an old phonetic alphabet
• Woodwind higher than a bassoon
• Wind in front of a stage
• ___ d'amour: baroque instrument
• Tuning-note instrument
• "Bolero" instrument
• Its "A" tunes the orchestra
• "Peter and the Wolf" instrument
• Certain wind instrument
• Woodwind that's usually black
• Instrument for the "Swan Lake" theme
• It needs reeds
• "Gabriel's ___" (theme from "The Mission")
• Wood wind
• Its French name means "high wood"
• Wind-ensemble instrument
• Wind in the pits?
• Wind on a stage
• The orchestra tunes to one
• "An ill wind ..." instrument
• Plaintive wind, perhaps
• Instrument heard in Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe"
• Kind of woodwind instrument
• Hautboy, more commonly
• English horn kin
• Sounder of the tuning note at the start of an orchestra rehearsal
• Its range is nearly three octaves
• Instrument often described as "mournful"
• Woodwind able to provide an orchestra's tuning note
• Instrument in a pit
• Soprano instrument
• Conical instrument
• Two-reed instrument
• Penetrating wind?
• Heinz Holliger's instrument
• Clarinet companion
• Musical instrument ...
• Contrabassoon cousin
• Instrument the band tunes up to
• Bert Lucarelli's instrument
• Mitch Miller played it
• Wind section member
• Certain reed instrument
• It means "high wood"
• Soloist in Schubert's Ninth Symphony
• Band instrument
• The duck in Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf"
• Sarrusophone relative
• Instrument with a bell
• Double-reeded instrument
• It gives the orchestra an A
• An English horn is lower than it
• Wind among the reeds
• Concerto soloist, perhaps
• Instrument with a double-reed
• Poignant player
• Pitch-setting instrument
• Instrument among the reeds
• Instrument with metal keys
• Instrument with a double-reed mouthpiece
• Common woodwind
• It may be blown onstage
• Reed of note
• Slim woodwind
• "I Got You Babe" reed instrument
• Woodwind used as an orchestral "tuning fork"
• Instrument called "an ill wind that nobody blows good"
• Certain reed
• Conical-bore instrument
• Strauss wrote a concerto in D for it
• One-consonant instrument
• Instrument on Mariah Carey's "Hero"
• Bombarde's cousin
• Instrument in some baroque pop tunes
• O, in a phonetic alphabet
• An instrument with a large range
• Slim instrument
• Mozart's ___ Concerto in C major
• High wind
• Instrument used to set the pitch for an orchestra
• Tubular woodwind
• "O" to ham operators, once
• Vivaldi concerto soloist
• Alto woodwind
• One woodwind
• "Ill wind that no one blows good"
• Soprano woodwind
• Heckelphone's kin
• Reed to which an orchestra tunes
• Modern shawm
• Relative of a bassoon
• High-pitched wind instrument
• English horn, e.g.
• Orchestra's "tuning fork"
• Woodwind played in "Pretty Ballerina"
• Instrument heard on "For All We Know"
• Instrument that tunes an orchestra
• Cousin of a cor anglais
• "I Got You Babe" reed
• Letter before Peter in a phonetic alphabet
• Woodwind with the "swan" melody in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"
• Instrument also called a hautboy
• It uses a double reed
• It has a double reed
• Wind with keys
• Wind with a flared bell
• Wide-ranging reed
• Soloist in Tchaikovsky's "Swan's Theme"
• Part of the winds
• Reed in a hall
• Part of the orchestra
• Poignant wind
• Melancholy-sounding woodwind
• Charmer's instrument
• Relative of a clarinet
• Instrument with three vowels
• Woodwind with nearly a three-octave range
• Heckelphone lookalike
• Treble reed
• It may be found among the reeds
• Instrument similar to a cor anglais
• Bassoon's smaller kin
• Yamaha product
• Instrument in an orchestra
• Penetrating woodwind
• Instrument whose name means "high wood"
• Musical instrument
• Woodwind descended from the shawm
• Shawm's offspring
• Clarinetlike instrument
• Wind in the reeds
• Instrument that begins an orchestra's tune-up
• Bassoon'skin
• Reeded instrument
• Wood wind instrument
• Rather high wind
• Woodwind with a pastoral sound
• Something that may be found in a pit
• Ma's specialty
• Reed-section instrument
• Black wind
• Woodwind with a haunting sound
• Instrument with a double reed
• Musical instrument with a flared end
• Orchestra reed
• Thin woodwind
• It's usually behind a viola in an orchestra
• Sax relative
• Pit tube
• Certain orchestra instrument
• Brandenburg Concertos participant
• Instrument called an "ill wind" in song
• Instrument with octave keys
• Instrument with a flared bell
• Woodwind quartet member
• Woodwind with a wide range
• Letter before Peter in the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet
• Instrument often made of African blackwood
• Instrument that an orchestra tunes to
• Relative of a musette
• Orchestra's pitch setter
• Instrument once called "hautbois"
• Instrument in old phonetic alphabets
• Kind of pipe
• Flute's symphonic neighbor
• Instrument with cane blades
• Orchestras tune to it
• Instrument called "an ill wind"
• Pit wind
• Symphony's "tuning fork"
• Woodwind with an octave key
• Tuneful pipe
• Pit horn
• Instrument
• Band instrument with a reed
• Long, narrow musical instrument
• Orchestral woodwind
• Pitch-setting, hand-held musical instrument
• Orchestra instrument with a reed
• Boston Pops instrument
• Instrument with a reed
• "...an ill wind"
• Bach concerto instrument
• A certain woodwind instrument
• Musical wind instrument
• Orchestra reed instrument
• Slender black reed instrument
• A woodwind instrument
• Long, slender woodwind instrument
• Certain woodwind instrument
• Instrument that means "high wood"
• Clarinet's relative
• Slender orchestra instrument
• Slender woodwind in an orchestra
• Slender instrument in an orchestra
• "...an ill wind" woodwind
• Type of woodwind instrument
• Used when rocker's jam w/orchestra
• Slender wind instrument
• Slender reed instrument
• Old violin player, say, a member of the orchestra
• Empty honour for a woodwind player
• Nasty smell in one having spilled guts, something blown
• Bum has opening removed with electronic instrument
• Player ought to wear decoration
• One's blown old plane in half
• It has a conical bore
• Gong rings round part of orchestra
• Sarrusophone's kin
• Reed that's often black
• It's an honour to possess old instrument
• Tramp 'eard in the wind?
• O, there's only half an aeroplane, blow it!
• Music producer in love with broker, oddly
• Source of notes of Bank of England, originally
• Member of the woodwind family
• Aerophone with keys
• Notes may be blown out of it
• Old boyfriend said to be member of orchestra
• “O” in old radio alphabets
• Instrument that's difficult to tune
• Instrument often made from grenadilla wood
• Instrument Martin's left is a trombone
• Borrow from boyfriend to hear orchestral soloist
• Player giving lead on pitch
• Instrument initially owned by Offenbach and Elgar
• Part of the orchestra on booze? Only the odd characters!
• Instrument for tramps to scrape off edges
• Initially one blows on each instrument
• Pipe gets award - there's nothing in it
• An empty award
• Instrument lout stuffed with cheese, filling hollow one
• Band, live, including old instrument for blowing in the wind
• Its "reeds are a pain / And the fingering's insane," per Ogden Nash
• Woodwind option
• High-pitched woodwind instrument
• Chamber music reed
• Woodwind instrument that's usually black
• Tuner in a pit
• One of two to four in a standard orchestra
• It's blown in a pit
• Poignant instrument
• Thin instrument in an orchestra
• Instrument for blower seen regularly
• Instrument for which Mr. Lies in "Angels in America" said, "If the duck was a songbird it would sing like this"
• It has a brief solo in the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth
• Chamber music woodwind
• Woodwind with a penetrating sound
• Woodwind called "an ill wind"
• Haunting woodwind
• Woodwind with a mournful tone
• Philharmonic member
• Easy-to-carry woodwind
• What philharmonics tune to
• Some wind from bared US bums
• Item with a bore and a bell
• Reed with 53-Down
• Band member
• One of the woods
• Instrument whose name sounds like a rebuke of Obama's dog
• Orchestral "ill wind"
• Symphony tuner
• Woodwind with a narrow bore
• Typically black woodwind
• Wind instrument once known as the hautbois
• Melancholy-sounding instrument
• Woodwind type
• Lightweight woodwind
• Bassoon's higher relative
• Certain woodwind in a pit
• English horn
• Tuning woodwind
• Chamber group woodwind
• An orchestra might tune to it
• Tubular wind
• Instrument that represents the duck in "Peter and the Wolf"
• Marching-band rarity
• Mellow woodwind
• Instrument with a three-octave range
• "Official instrument of the International Order of Travel Agents," per "Angels in America"
• An aerophone
• Sonia the duck in Peter and the Wolf
• Woodwind in chamber music
• Vowel-rich woodwind
• English horn's relative
• Literally, "high wood"
• Source of some penetrating notes
• Woodwind with keys
• A double reed woodwind instrument
• Easy-to-hold woodwind
• Orchestras tune to one
• Philharmonic woodwind
• Woodwind once called the hautboy
• Duck instrument in "Peter and the Wolf"
• Double-reed instrument
• English horn’s cousin
• Letter in the W.W. II phonetic alphabet
• Wind with nearly a three-octave range
• Instrument related to the cor anglais
• Instrument often used to tune an orchestra
• Instrument used for tuning
• It has cork and a bell
• What orchestras tune to
• Wind up on stage?
• Crumhorn’s relative
• Instrument with a brief solo in Beethoven's Fifth
• Wind instrument in Donovan's "Jennifer Juniper"
• Easily handled instrument
• Baby bassoon?
• Double reed woodwind instrument
• Instrument from the French for "high wood"
• Source of an orchestra’s tuning note
• Plaintive reed instrument
• Instrument in the intro to the Carpenters' "For All We Know"
• It leads the orchestra in tuning
• Instrument is gong with hole in
• Peter preceder, in a phonetic alphabet
• Heckelphone cousin
• Flute's orchestral neighbor
• Military band instrument
• Reed in the pit
• Jennifer Paull's instrument
• Clarinet’s cousin
• Bassoon's concert neighbor
• Easy-to-carry instrument
• Blackwood product seen on stages
• Instrument heard in "I Got You, Babe"
• Bassoon's higher cousin
• Light wind?
• "Swan Lake" woodwind
• Katherine Needleman's instrument
• Tuning instrument in an orchestra
• Can notes be blown out of it?
• Type of 24-Across instrument
• O, in the W.W. II Army/Navy alphabet
• One of two or three in a typical orchestra
• Symphony wind
• Instrument featured in 36-Across
• Instrument that plays an orchestra's tuning note
• Pre-performance pitch-setting wind
• Wind heard in Dion's "Abraham, Martin and John"
• Instrument that introduces the "Swan Lake" theme
• Instrument featured in "I Got You Babe"
• Relative of a cor anglais
• Ariana Ghez's instrument
• Woodwind that uses treble clef
• Tuneful reed
• One with a solo in Brahms's Symphony No. 1
• Wind up on the pitch?
• Instrument with a flared end
• Double-reeded aerophone with keys
• A certain wind instrument
• It plays in the treble or soprano range
• Instrument with two reeds
• Slender musical instrument
• Strauss's "Concerto in D Major for ___ and Small Orchestra"
• Woodwind instrument that's 75% vowels
• Wind with a three-octave range
• Titus Underwood's instrument
• Instrument played by indie rock's Sufjan Stevens
• Instrument heard in the intro to Madonna's "Crazy for You"
• Liang Wang's instrument
• Easy-to-handle orchestra instrument
• Instrument descended from the shawm
• Orchestra's A440 sounder
• Hautboy, more familiarly
• Wind from the French for "high wood"
• Double-reed wind
• Instrument with two blades of bamboo
• Stiff wind?
• Instrument for Elaine Douvas
• Alex Klein's instrument
• Instrument with a mouthpiece
• Skinny conical instrument
• Woodwind a bit lower than a piccolo
• Instrument with a solo in Seal's "Kiss From a Rose"
• The "quail" in Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony
• Reedy wind instrument
• Part of the woodwind family
• Three-vowel instrument
• Orchestral instrument with a bell key
• Wind with a range of roughly three octaves
• Thin reed
• Wind quintet wind
• Instrument originally called an hautbois
• Instrument in a wind ensemble
• It's used to tune an orchestra
• Bassoon's smaller relative
• Orchestra tuning instrument
• Cousin of the Spanish chirimía or Italian piffero
• Cor anglais kin
• Instrument related to the clarinet
• Woodwind for Elaine Douvas
• Instrument prominently heard in both Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" and Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe"
• Wind often made from grenadilla wood
• Thin wind
• Instrument in a woodwind section
• Instrument in Joan Tower's "Island Prelude"
• Certain orchestra woodwind
• It "sounds like a clarinet with a cold," per Victor Borge
• Prominent instrument in "Swan Lake"
• Instrument sometimes confused with a clarinet
• Blow between two reeds to hear it
• Woodwind instrument in "Kiss From a Rose"
• Woodwind with a double reed
• Woodwind instrument with a double reed
• It has 45 keys
• Woodwind played in an orchestra
• Instrument similar to a bassoon
• Hautbois, en anglais
• Instrument blown into in an orchestra
• Woodwind with a 2.5-octave range
• Double-reed musical instrument
• Slight wind?
• Long, cylindrical instrument
• Reed instrument with 45 keys
• Skinny double-reed instrument
• Slender orchestra woodwind
• One throwing out the first pitch?
• Instrument with a vowel-heavy name
• Flute neighbor in an orchestra
• Woodwind simulated in "Happy Together"
• Woodwind section member
• Relative of a heckelphone
• Slender 27-Across instrument
• Woodwind played by Andy Mackay of Roxy Music
• Instrument similar to a suona
• Woodwind with a Viennese variety
• Woodwind commonly made of grenadilla wood
• Woodwind featured in Madonna's "Crazy for You"
• Woodwind instrument featured in "Peter and the Wolf"
• Prominent instrument in Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" and Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe"
• Woodwind "da caccia"
• Vowel-heavy instrument
• Shawm cousin
• Instrument whose name is 75% vowels
• Instrument commonly made from African blackwood
• Instrument similar to a heckelphone
• Wind instrument that typically has 23 tone holes
• Woodwind related to the cor anglais
• Musical instrument whose second syllable sounds like a part of other musical instruments
• Wind instrument featured in R.E.M.'s "Nightswimming"
• Instrument usually pitched in C
• Instrument also called the "sprightly companion"
• Double-reed woodwind related to the shawm