Historical clue formulations

• Instrument also called the "sprightly companion" — 2026-09-23
• Light wind? — 2026-06-27
• Instrument usually pitched in C — 2026-06-19
• Thin woodwind — 2026-06-01
• Orchestral woodwind — 2026-05-25
• Musical instrument whose second syllable sounds like a part of other musical instruments — 2026-04-15
• Woodwind related to the cor anglais — 2026-01-11
• Yamaha product — 2025-12-17
• Orchestra-tuning instrument — 2025-12-16
• Orchestral woodwind — 2025-12-15
• The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" — 2025-12-07
• Instrument similar to a heckelphone — 2025-10-14
• Thin woodwind — 2025-09-08
• Heckelphone relative — 2025-07-10
• Instrument whose name is 75% vowels — 2025-04-23
• Double-reed woodwind — 2025-03-17
• Thin woodwind — 2025-01-22
• Cousin of a clarinet — 2025-01-06
• Double-reed woodwind — 2024-11-04
• Orchestra woodwind — 2024-09-10
• Relative of a heckelphone — 2024-09-07
• Instrument with a vowel-heavy name — 2024-06-02
• Orchestra woodwind — 2024-05-06
• Orchestra part — 2024-04-17
• "O," in W.W. II radio lingo — 2024-03-13
• Long, cylindrical instrument — 2024-02-12
• Instrument with a bell — 2024-02-01
• Hautbois, en anglais — 2023-11-10
• Thin woodwind — 2023-11-02
• Relative of a musette — 2023-10-22
• Orchestra woodwind — 2023-10-16
• It has 45 keys — 2023-10-08
• her prized ___. — 2023-08-30
• Instrument sometimes confused with a clarinet — 2023-07-25
• Relative of a cor anglais — 2023-06-01
• It "sounds like a clarinet with a cold," per Victor Borge — 2023-05-14
• Instrument in Joan Tower's "Island Prelude" — 2023-05-07
• Heckelphone relative — 2023-04-14
• Orchestra-tuning instrument — 2023-03-28
• Instrument prominently heard in both Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" and Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" — 2023-03-22
• Cousin of the Spanish chirimía or Italian piffero — 2023-01-28
• The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" — 2022-12-21
• It's used to tune an orchestra — 2022-12-04
• High wind — 2022-11-20
• Reedy woodwind — 2022-09-13
• Instrument with a bell — 2022-07-28
• Orchestral instrument with a bell key — 2022-07-05
• Light wind? — 2022-05-26
• Cousin of a bassoon — 2022-04-26
• Reedy wind instrument — 2022-03-21