Actually, I hear oboes in music more than most instruments of course I do listen for them but, the oboe is in nearly every piece of music I have ever heard. Most people can't hear it though because 1)they don't know what to listen for 2)it is all too often in music we don't pay attention to, like back ground music on a T.V. show or in Orchestra music blending with the clarinets and flutes. When you really listen though you can hear it's elegance and beauty, for how often I hear it in music it is shocking to me how few people could tell you what it looks like and it's also shocking that there are so few in high school band and orchestras (do they even have high school orchestras now days?) I actually find that if you listen to classical pieces of music 7 out of 10 times (or more) there is and oboe solo, of course I don't know how many kids these days like classical music! -Clara
