What's an oboe?

Kindling for a bassoon fire.

(My stock joke when my then girlfriend accompanied me on one in folk clubs many moons ago. Not too versatile to be honest. Where you think a saxophone might sound good, an oboe can do it without drowning out guitar and voice if playing acoustically. )

Last year, I opened for an Americana / blues / bluegrass type duo, Red Dirt Skinners. She plays a soprano sax. Now that DOES lend itself to good solos against a guitar.