The clarinet /ˌklærəˈnɛt/ is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist (sometimes spelled clarinettist).
The word clarinet may have entered the English language via the French clarinette (the feminine diminutive of Old French clarin or clarion), or from Provençal clarin, "oboe". It would seem however that its real roots are to be found amongst some of the various names for trumpets used around the renaissance and baroque eras. Clarion, clarin and the Italian clarino are all derived from the medieval term claro which referred to an early form of trumpet. This is probably the origin of the Italian clarinetto, itself a diminutive of clarino, and consequently of the European equivalents such as clarinette in French or the German Klarinette. According to Johann Gottfried Walther, writing in 1732, the reason for the name is that "it sounded from far off not unlike a trumpet". The English form clarinet is found as early as 1733, and the now-archaic clarionet appears from 1784 until the early years of the 20th century.
Brad Templeton (born near Toronto on April 20, 1960) is a software architect, civil rights advocate, and entrepreneur. He graduated from the University of Waterloo.
Templeton is considered one of the early luminaries of Usenet, and in 1989 founded ClariNet Communications Corporation, which used Usenet protocols to distribute news articles, one of the first commercial examples of electronic publishing. In his "Net History in Brief" post, he coined the phrase Imminent death of net predicted. He also founded Looking Glass Software (not the same company as Looking Glass Studios), and was involved in the development of a number of software packages.
He was the Chairman of the Board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for ten years until February 2010, when he relinquished his tenure to John Buckman. Brad remains on the Board of the EFF. He created the Usenet newsgroup rec.humor.funny in 1987 and moderated it from 1987 to 1992. To Commodore users he's probably best known for Power (a C compiler) and the assembler PAL.
Non so
cosa sia la fedeltà,
la ragione del mio canto
che resistere non può
ad un cosi dolce pianto
che mutò l'amore mio.
E se
anche il sorgere del sole
ci trovasse ancora insieme,
per favore dimmi no,
rende stupidi anche i saggi
l'amore, amore mio.
Se dentro l'anima
tu fossi musica,
se il sole fosse dentro te,
se fossi veramente
dentro l'anima mia,
allora sì che udir potrei
nel mio silenzio
il mare calmo
della sera.
Però
quell'immagine di te
cosi persa nei miei occhi
mi portò la verità,
ama quello che non ha
l'amore, amore mio.
Se dentro l'anima
tu fossi musica,
se il sole fosse dentro te,
se fossi veramente
dentro l'anima mia,
allora sì che udir potrei
il mare calmo della sera.
nel mio silenzio