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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 English words of Chinese origin - Wikipedia

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    Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese.However, Chinese words have also entered indirectly via other languages, particularly Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, that have all used Chinese characters at some point and contain a large number of Chinese loanwords.

  4. 24 Free Holiday Word Searches

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    Challenging your brain with printable word searches is fun all year long, but these holiday word searches are sure to get you in the spirit and help you celebrate. You can print out these free ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Semi-contrabassoon - Wikipedia

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    The semi-contrabassoon (also called quint bassoon, semi-contra or half-contra) is a double reed woodwind instrument pitched between the bassoon and the contrabassoon.It is pitched in either F (quint bass) or G (quart bass) a fifth or fourth, respectively, below the bassoon.

  8. 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.

  9. Wotou - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Journal of Physiology described an experiment using mixed flour to make the hollow cone shaped wotou steamed bread, with it consisting of 2 parts millet, 2 parts red kaoliang, and 1 part soybean. [20] [21] It was known as wotou 窩頭, "maize-soybean flour bread." [22] It was also known as wowotou 窩窩頭, "bean-millet bread".