A cor anglais is what type of instrument?
Cor anglais the instrument is neither from England nor related to the various conical-bore brass instruments called "horns", such as the French horn, the natural horn, the post horn, or the alto horn. The instrument originated in Silesia about 1720, when a bulb bell was fitted to a curved "oboe da caccia"-type body by the Weigel family of Breslau. The two-keyed, open-belled, straight tenor oboe (French "taille de hautbois", "tenor oboe"), and more particularly the flare-belled "oboe da caccia", resembled the horns played by angels in religious images of the Middle Ages. This gave rise in German-speaking central Europe to the Middle
Cor anglais Cor anglais The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: "cors anglais") or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe. The cor anglais is a transposing instrument pitched in F, a perfect fifth lower than the oboe (a C instrument). This means that music for the cor anglais is written a perfect fifth higher than the instrument actually sounds. The fingering and playing technique used for the cor anglais are essentially the same as those of the oboe and oboists