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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.
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.
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 pomme d'Adam See also: Spanglish Also technological terms calqued from English are used throughout the Spanish-speaking world:
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.
The word bassoon comes from French basson and from Italian bassone (basso with the augmentative suffix -one). [3] However, the Italian name for the same instrument is fagotto , in Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Romanian it is fagot , [ 4 ] in German it is fagott and in Portuguese it is fagote .
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The contraforte uses a different and wider bore [1] than the contrabassoon to produce a distinct tone; the sound is more even in strength and intonation across registers, remaining quite strong into the high register, unlike a contrabassoon. Also, it lacks the distinct "rattle" of a contrabassoon, although an appropriate reed design can ...
Juan (Mandarin pronunciation: or 娟, 隽) 'beautiful, graceful' is a common given name for Chinese women.; Juan The Chinese character 卷, which in Mandarin is almost homophonic with the characters for the female name, is a division of a traditional Chinese manuscript or book and can be translated as 'fascicle', 'scroll', 'chapter', or 'volume'.