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Edmonton has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb). [1] It falls into the NRC 4a Plant Hardiness Zone. [2] The city is known for having cold winters. [3] Its average daily temperatures range from a low of −10.4 °C (13.3 °F) in January to a summer peak of 23 °C (73.4 °F) in July. [4]
Full-Boehm clarinet, range to E flat, with 20 keys, 7 rings and left E-flat-lever. The Boehm system for the clarinet is a system of clarinet keywork, developed between 1839 and 1843 by Hyacinthe Klosé and Auguste Buffet jeune. The name is somewhat deceptive; the system was inspired by Theobald Boehm 's system for the flute, but necessarily ...
Clarinet family. A group of different clarinets. In order from left to right: bass clarinet, E ♭ alto clarinet, soprano clarinets in C, B ♭, A, E ♭, and D, and clarinets in high and low G. Different instruments of the clarinet family (German system) played by Tribal Clarinet Trio. Left to right: deep G clarinet (Theo Jörgensmann ...
The B♭soprano clarinetis the most common type, and is the instrument usually indicated by the word "clarinet". German instrument maker Johann Christoph Denneris generally credited with inventing the clarinet sometime around 1700 by adding a register keyto the chalumeau, an earlier single-reed instrument.
The A-flat (A♭) clarinet is the highest-pitched instrument of the clarinet family still manufactured. It is just over half the length of the common B♭ clarinet and pitched a minor seventh higher, a perfect fourth higher than the E♭ clarinet. As a transposing instrument it sounds a minor sixth higher than written, thus the lowest written ...
A soprano clarinet is a clarinet that is higher in register than the basset horn or alto clarinet. The unmodified word clarinet usually refers to the B ♭ clarinet, which is by far the most common type. The term soprano also applies to the clarinets in A and C, and even the low G clarinet—rare in Western music but popular in the folk music ...
Canada's annual average temperature over land has warmed by 1.7 °C (3.1 °F), with changes ranging from 1.1 to 2.3 °C (2.0 to 4.1 °F) in various regions, since 1948. [4] The rate of warming has been higher across the North and in the Prairies. [4] In the southern regions of Canada, air pollution from both Canada and the United States ...
The contra-alto clarinet [2] is largely a development of the 2nd half of the 20th century, although there were some precursors in the 19th century: . In 1829, Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Streitwolf [], an instrument maker in Göttingen, introduced an instrument tuned in F in the shape and fingering of a basset horn, which could be called a contrabasset horn because it played an octave lower than it.