Originally Posted by Dude
And don't forget the oboe, the instrument of choice for the hothousing parent. But in this particular situation, the parent is trying to help the child win friends, and being good at squash has the same social currency as an oboe solo.
Please save us from all bad oboe players (that would be somewhere in the upper 90%s of oboe players)!

...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...