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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. Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    3 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), piccolo, alto flute, 4 oboes (one doubling English horn), English horn, 3 clarinets (one doubling bass clarinet), D clarinet (doubling E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet, 4 bassoons (one doubling contrabassoon), contrabassoon, 8 horns (2 doubling tenor tuba), 4 trumpets (1 doubling bass trumpet), piccolo trumpet, 3 ...

  4. Peter Wong (sports commentator) - Wikipedia

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    (meaning the result is unlikely to change) Such catchphrases are often use by other Cantonese-speaking sports commentators. He is a very controversial football commentator in Hong Kong, many find his commentating style being senseless but he has also many supporters thinking he is very entertaining.

  5. Mao Commentary - Wikipedia

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    Zheng Xuan's edition of the Mao text became the imperially authorized text and commentary on the Poetry in 653 AD. [1] Duan Yucai's (1735–1815) in his Maoshi guxun zhuan dingben 毛詩故訓傳定本 (preface 1784), includes the Mao commentary, the Zheng sub-commentary, and other commentarial material by Lu Deming (556-627) and Kong Yingda ...

  6. China Uncensored - Wikipedia

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    China Uncensored is a YouTube commentary channel focusing on political issues in China with elements of humor and irony. The show opposes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). American pundit Chris Chappell is the host of the series. [2] [3]

  7. Contrabass sarrusophone - Wikipedia

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    The EE♭ sarrusophone has the tone of a reedy contrabass saxophone, while the CC sarrusophone sounds much like the contrabassoon.The BB♭ contrabass sarrusophone is the lowest of the sarrusophones, and was the lowest-pitched wind instrument until the invention of the EEE♭ octocontra-alto and the BBB♭ octocontrabass clarinets, and the BB♭ subcontrabass tubax.

  8. Euphemisms for Internet censorship in China - Wikipedia

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    In a further complication of meaning, sometimes aquatic product (Chinese: 水产) is used in place of "river crab". These euphemisms are also used as verbs. For example, instead of saying something has been censored, one might say "it has been harmonized" (Chinese: 被和谐了) or "it has been river-crabbed" (Chinese: 被河蟹了). The ...

  9. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    From sam-(co-) and vittig (today meaning "funny" but which stems from Low German, where it meant "reasonable", related to "vite" (to know) and English "wit".) Norwegian tenåring calques English teenager : fem ten = fif teen , åring = annual harvest [ 77 ]