Confidence votes 471. The harpsichord produces sound by strings being plucked by quills. The piano is now more widely used because its strings are instead hammered, which gives it more power and dynamic versatility than the harpsichord.
Rainfall/ Precipitation in Mendoza, Argentina. Mendoza is endowed with on average 231.1 mm (9.1 in) of rainfall per year, or 19.3 mm (0.8 in) per month. The driest weather is in August when an average of 4.8 mm (0.2 in) of rainfall (precipitation) occurs. The wettest weather is in February when an average of 43 mm (1.7 in) of rainfall (precipitation) occurs.
National rainfall for 2014 was 13 mm, or 3%, above the 1961â1990 average (average is 465 mm). Compared to rainfall in all years since 1900 (115 years), the Australian annual total of 478 mm makes 2014 the 40th-wettest year on record, near the median or mid-point of historical observations.ictoria's annual rainfall has been below average for 15 of the last 18 years (1997â2014); only 2000, 2010 and 2011 observed above-average rainfall during this period, with each of these three years affected by La Nina. niÃ±a