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- Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...nt]] in the [[woodwind]] family. The name derives from adding the suffix ''-et'' meaning ''little'' to...
4: Clarinets are made from specially chosen varieties of [[wood]] or, in t...
15: ...ak" notes are the clarion register, and the range from high C (with two ledger lines) to the G above t...
20: ...e major manufacturer makes professional clarinets from a composite mixture of plastic resin and wood c...
22: ...d with a complicated set of seven tone holes (six front, one back) and 17 keys which allow the full mu... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...Events of the Millennium by LIFE Magazine. Apart from Gutenberg, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Laurens ...
8: ... using "rag" [[paper]] introduced into [[Europe]] from [[China]] by way of [[Muslims]], who had a pape...
12: ... books were copied mainly in [[monasteries]], or (from the [[13th century]]) in commercial [[scriptori...
14: ... printing presses an industry requiring a licence from the Catholic Church (an idea rejected in the en...
16: ...vention in 1453, towns from Hungary to Spain, and from Italy to Britain had functional printing presse... - Woodwind instrument (3308 bytes)
43: ...eld against the aperture of the mouthpiece with a ligature. When air is forced between the reed and the mout...
48: ...ips to form the stream of air which goes directly from the players lips to the edge, e.g. the transver...
51: ... of the sound produced traveling straight outward from the bell. This difference makes it significantl... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
17: ...e. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a syste...
19: ...as a stand-in for 4/4 time is actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common ...
21: ...emensis), [[Johannes de Muris|Jehan des Murs]], [[Franco of Cologne]], [[Johannes de Garlandia]] (Joha...
27: ...hant]] was used and shows the influence of North African music. The Mozarabic liturgy even survived th...
32: ...lodies]] that make up the repertory probably come from several sources, some as far back as the pontif... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
13: ...ginally developed by Morse and his assistant, [[Alfred Vail]]. In 1848 a refinement of the code sequen...
17: ...inning in the mid-1830s, [[Samuel Morse]] and [[Alfred Vail]] developed an [[electric telegraph]], whi...
23: ...a language that is ''heard'', instead of one read from a page[http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/learncw/]...
27: ...selves for service information like link quality, frequency changes, and telegram numbering.
29: ...nce." ''See also:'' [[international distress frequency]] - French language (40201 bytes)
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3: ...]], [[Rwanda]], [[Burundi]], [[Togo]], [[Central African Republic]], [[Republic of the Congo]], [[Gabo...
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15: ...nbsp; '''French'''<br></td></tr>
16: |nation=[[France]] and 24 other countries - Glyphs (2145 bytes)
2: ...ention with the engravings and lithographs from [[Frederick Catherwood]]'s drawings of undeciphered gl...
4: ...be combined into a single [[ligature (typography)|ligature]]. Conversely, some [[typewriter]]s require the u...
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