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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. Contraforte - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Reed contrabass - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] It was further developed by the Belgian maker Mahillon, who in 1868 produced the contrebasse à anche for military bands in France and Italy. [4] It was one of several attempts at the time to create a woodwind instrument in the contrabass register, attempts that would eventually lead to the contrabassoon by the turn of the 20th century.

  7. Five Races Under One Union - Wikipedia

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    The term "Hui" (回) here refers to all Muslims (回民, aka 穆斯林) in China as a whole regardless of ethnicity, [7] including Chinese-speaking Muslims, Turkic-speaking Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kygryzs and Tatars, Mongolic-speaking Dongxiangs and Bonans, and Iranic-speaking Pamiris, etc.

  8. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Running dog calques Chinese: 走狗; pinyin: zǒu gǒu. [1]brainwashing calques Chinese: 洗腦; pinyin: xǐ nǎo [2] – usage via U.S. military during Korean War ...

  9. 1911 (film) - Wikipedia

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    1911 (Chinese: 辛亥革命, also known as Xinhai Revolution and The 1911 Revolution in the worldwide), is a 2011 Chinese historical drama film starring and directed by Jackie Chan in his 100th film as an actor, [3] and co-directed by Zhang Li. The film is about the 1911 Revolution in China, [4] produced to commemorate the revolution's 100th ...