Prev Next. What happens when you cry, exactly? A salty fluid chock full of protein, water, mucus and oil is released from the lacrimal gland in the upper, outer region of your eye. This fluid, better known as tears, then flows down the surface of your eye, across your face and smears your mascara.
INSTRUMENTS IN DEPTH. THE OBOE. The oboe, a double reed instrument in the woodwind family, is one of the most beautiful, important, and unique musical instruments. With a long history dating back as far as ancient Greece, it has developed through the centuries into one of the most challenging and distinct instruments in the modern orchestra.
The chief present-day members of the family are: (1) The oboe, with its pleasant, strangely penetrating sound. (2) The cor anglais (or 'English horn', though it is neither English nor a horn), an alto oboe with a pitch a fifth below that of the oboe. To avoid it being a little too long for the player, the reed is inserted in a metal tube which is bent back. (3) The bassoon, the bass member of the family, of which the whole tube is bent back on itself and the reed brought within reach of the player's mouth by a curved tube. (4) The double bassoon, which resembles the bassoon but is longer and an octave lower in pitch.