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.......-=\             \\\ clarinet \\\             \=-.......
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....-=\=*£ the clarinet is  a darkish tube  with  a £*=\=-....
...-=\=*£@ blow hole and a music  hole, in separate @£*=\=-...
..-=\=*£@# ends.  on   it's  side  are  levers  and #@£*=\=-..
.-=\=*£@## buttons to guide its unfathomable power. ##@£*=\=-.
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...-=\=*£@ it was  designed  for humans but  can be @£*=\=-...
....-=\=*£ used   by   any   being   with   blowing £*=\=-....
.....-=\=* capabilities  and at least some fingers. *=\=-.....
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.........- the clarinet can  be  thought  of  as  a -.........
........-= pasttime  or  a  tool,  but  also  as  a =-........
.......-=\ weapon.  as  such  it  has  been used in \=-.......
......-=\= many  campaigns,  but  at  the  time  of =\=-......
.....-=\=* writing  it   has  been  lost  for  over *=\=-.....
....-=\=*£               fourty years               £*=\=-....
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