Piston : France musical instrument
The piston is a kind of oboe that is fabricated by Breton musician, teacher and luthier Youenn Le Bihan in 1983. The piston is a modern da...
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The piston is a kind of oboe that is
fabricated by Breton musician, teacher and luthier Youenn Le Bihan in 1983. The
piston is a modern day development of the hautbois, classical and baroque oboe.
The musical instrument was influenced by the bombard or the talabard, the
traditional double reed musical instrument of the Brittany. The musical
instrument is rooted typically in the key of D and features post-mounted simple
system key work to expand the range of the musical instrument. The tone of the
musical instrument stands in a warm and rich middle ground between the tone of
the bombard that is like that of the trumpet and the baroque oboe. The bore is
analogous to that of the classical oboe or the baroque oboe.
The piston uses a fairly rigid reed
based on cane of an approximately 12 mm as the diameter, very analogous to
those of the baritone oboe, baroque oboe and the English horn. Unlike these
other versions of the oboe, the piston reed’s brass however staple is analogous
to that of the conservatoire oboe, having a cork outer layer and a cylindrical
shape to fit into the reed well of
the musical instrument, therefore needing neither thread to wrap the staple nor
a bocal for it to fit into.
Since the debut of the musical
instrument by Mr. Le Bihan with groups like the Gwerz and Skolvan, use of the
musical instrument has simultaneously expanded in the popularity in the
traditional groups linked with the fest noz dance culture, the musical
instrument is typically by musical instrument like the fiddle, guitar, traverse
flute and the accordion. Some other players of music that have recorded with
the musical instrument are the group koun, tud and Penn Gollo.
Traditionally and initially, the
musical instrument was first produced by Mr. Le Bihan, and he produced them on
only a very limited basis. Other producers of the musical instrument soon
filled the void, however, and the pistons by producers like Hervieux and Glet,
Jean-Luc Ollivier and Eric Ollu started filling the instrument’s role also.
