Contrabass oboe Contrabass oboe The contrabass oboe is a double reed woodwind instrument in the key of C or F, sounding two octaves or an octave and a fourth (respectively) lower than the standard oboe. Current research, in particular that by hautboy specialist Bruce Haynes, suggests that such instruments may have been developed in France as part of an original attempt to maintain the complete family of double reed instruments when the oboe was created from the shawm. There was an instrument referred to as the basse de cromorne or basse de hautbois which was used by Lully, Charpentier, and other French
German Jubilate Harmonium Reeds stamp only can be identified by the distinct rivet structure securing the reed tongue on the German reeds which is the mostly the same on all versions of these reeds made on the same machinery in Germany. There is debate that the reeds branded 'Harmola' were made on a different machine elsewhere TBD. Most of the German reeds used in the Indian style harmoniums do not have the typical reed tongue shaping for the voicing of the reeds found in American or German style suction organs. There are also German Jubilate branded reeds that are the typical square casing design