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    A crampon is a traction device attached to footwear to improve mobility on snow and ice during ice climbing. Besides ice climbing, crampons are also used...
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    Buffet Crampon SAS is a French manufacturer of wind instruments based in Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines department. The company is the world market leader...
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  • Wolfsangel (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfsˌʔaŋəl], translation "wolf's hook") or Crampon (French pronunciation: [kʁɑ̃pɔ̃]) is a heraldic charge from mainly Germany...
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    to work with a certain type of boot. The final type of crampon is an automatic or step-in crampon. These use both the back and front welt on a person's...
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    the heel and toe or a single strip over the foot. Not to be mistaken for crampons used for ice climbing, ice cleats are much smaller and are commonly used...
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  • Melton Meinl Weston is a manufacturer of brass instruments owned by Buffet Crampon. It is based in Geretsried in Germany, and formerly based in Kraslice....
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  • in Paris making instruments, a business that was to become the Buffet Crampon company, still in operation and one of the foremost manufacturers of woodwind...
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  • on the Grivel AirTech GSB crampon. This crampon did away with the plastic toe covering commonly found on C1 and C2 crampons, and the strap connecting...
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    makers of basset clarinets using the French (Boehm) system are Buffet Crampon, Stephen Fox, Backun Musical Services, and Selmer. Some makers of both...
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  • tester and developer at Buffet Crampon since 1985. He helped create the Tosca clarinet, released in 2003 by Buffet Crampon, as well as Buffet's Festival...
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  • the peaks or the sheer determination of the people who, with only tiny crampon points and small ice axes, tackle climbing them in spite of blizzards,...
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    slope 'arrests' their fall by themselves by using their ice axe and their crampons. There are many ways to self-arrest depending on the climber's body position...
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    crooked cross (Krummkreuz) cross cramponned, cramponnée, or cramponny in heraldry, as each arm resembles a crampon or angle-iron (German: Winkelmaßkreuz)...
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    Buffet Crampon Divine model clarinet. Stevenson, Joseph. "Biography: Paul Meyer". Allmusic. Retrieved 18 January 2011. "Paul Meyer | Buffet Crampon". www...
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  • French entrepreneur, businessman and oboist. He was President of Buffet Crampon since November 2007 and was replaced in July 2014 by Jérôme Perrod. Antoine...
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    snow, with or without snowshoes. Heavy gaiters are often worn when using crampons, to protect the leg and ankle from the spikes of the opposite foot. Gaiters...
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    kicking action, the sharp metal 'front-point(s)' of their modern metal rigid crampon into the ice or hard packed snow to gain a secure foothold to assist their...
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    is a manufacturer of brass musical instruments. It is owned by Buffet Crampon, which bought Besson in 2006 from The Music Group. The company was formed...
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    large fisher. Though its legs are short, its large, five-toed paws with crampon-like claws and plantigrade posture enable it to climb up and over steep...
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    saxophone was written for the range of low B to F. In 1887 the Buffet-Crampon company obtained a patent for extending the bell and adding an extra key...
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    saxophone. Companies that currently produce saxophones include Buffet Crampon, KHS/Jupiter, Conn-Selmer, Selmer Paris, Yamaha, Leblanc/Vito, Keilwerth...
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  • ECO code in chess B12, a student model clarinet manufactured by Buffet Crampon Boron-12 (B-12 or 12B), an isotope of boron Big 12 Conference HLA-B12,...
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    with crampons. To achieve compatibility with crampons, welts are moulded into the toe and heel of the boot, providing a platform for the crampon to attach...
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    Bass clarinet 2 long B♭ bass clarinets: Buffet Crampon Prestige 1193 + Yamaha YCL 622 II Woodwind instrument Classification woodwind instrument Wind Woodwind...
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    designed for mountain and hill walking, backpacking and mountaineering. Crampons can be attached to them for a better grip on glaciers or hard-packed snow...
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    terrain requires both advanced skill and mountaineering-style pivoting-crampon snowshoes. Before people built snowshoes, nature provided examples. Several...
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    mountaineer, and a pioneer in the sport of bouldering. Inventor of the modern crampon, he was an innovator in climbing technique and mountaineering equipment...
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    Henri Selmer Paris Model 26/40 in rosewood to written E, E♭, or D Buffet Crampon Metal model patented in 1891 for Evette and Schaeffer (patent FR218373/5)...
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  • side of the island, but decides the mountains are too steep: at least crampons would be necessary. They discover the ruins of an old cabin and some sort...
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    and crampons". www.thebmc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2018. "How to Choose Ice Axes". REI. Retrieved 10 April 2018. "Choosing an ixe axe, crampons and winter...
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