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  2. Contrabassoon - Wikipedia

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    The contrabassoon is a very deep-sounding woodwind instrument that plays in the same sub-bass register as the tuba, double bass, or contrabass clarinet.It has a sounding range beginning at B ♭ 0 (or A 0, on some instruments) and extending up over three octaves to D 4, though the highest fourth is rarely scored for.

  3. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Spanish escuela alta calques English high school (secundaria or escuela secundaria in Standard Spanish) Spanish grado (de escuela) calques English grade (in school) (nota in Standard Spanish) Spanish manzana de Adán calques English Adam's apple (nuez de Adán, meaning "Adam's nut", in standard Spanish), which in turn is a calque of French ...

  4. Contrabass - Wikipedia

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    Contrabass (from Italian: contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchestral string family, tuned lower than the cello), many other instruments in the contrabass register exist.

  5. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instrument family Instrument name The note C 4 written down produces: Comment Accordion: D ♭ piano accordion : D ♭ 4: Bass accordion: C 2: Arpeggione: C 2 /C 3: Bagpipe Great Highland bagpipe ...

  6. Contrabassophone - Wikipedia

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    The contrabassophone is a woodwind instrument, invented about 1847 by German bassoon maker Heinrich Joseph Haseneier. [1] It was intended as a substitute for the contrabassoon, which at that time was an unsatisfactory instrument, with a muffled sound due to tone holes that were too small and too close together.

  7. List of Spanish words of Chinese origin - Wikipedia

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    china = an orange: shortened from naranja china, "Chinese orange," from Portuguese China, from Persian Cin (چین), derived from Sanskrit Cīna (चीन) (c. 1st century), probably from Chinese Qín (秦), Chinese dynasty (221-206 B.C.). For the etymologically unrelated Spanish word china/chino, see here.

  8. 1582 Cagayan battles - Wikipedia

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    Spanish sources record it as Tay Fusa, which does not correspond to a Japanese name but could be a transliteration of Taifu-san or Taifu-sama, with taifu being a word for a Japanese medieval chieftain rank, [11] also pronounced as tāi-hu in Hokkien Chinese, or dàfū in Mandarin Standard Chinese.

  9. Bassoon repertoire - Wikipedia

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    Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, features a fast, lengthy dual cadenza at the end of the first movement; Boléro, the bassoon has a high descending solo passage near the beginning; Piano Concerto in G Major; Piano Concerto in D Major (for the left hand), prominent use of contrabassoon in the opening; Ma mère l'oye a contrabassoon solo in the ...