No. I play flute in a band that has an oboe, too, and they are two completely different instruments. You hold the flute sideways and blow into a lip hole and with the oboe you hold it down and blow...
Mostly classical or baroque. They are very rarely used in modern music.
Literraly anything, i have one and i do all sorts of songs from jazz to love songs.
It plays Western Classical, Eastern (Indian, Chinease) and occasionally Jazz
it mostly plays classical music
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