Question: The pianist who paid for Chopin's funeral invited him to a country represented by a lion. Where was the highest temperature recorded in the country similarly represented by a stringed agent?

In late summer he was invited by Jane Stirling to visit Scotland, where he stayed at Calder House near Edinburgh and at Johnstone Castle in Renfrewshire, both owned by members of Stirling's family. She clearly had a notion of going beyond mere friendship, and Chopin was obliged to make it clear to her that this could not be so. He wrote at this time to Grzymała "My Scottish ladies are kind, but such bores", and responding to a rumour about his involvement, answered that he was "closer to the grave than the nuptial bed." He gave a public concert in Glasgow on 27 September, and another in Edinburgh, at the Hopetoun Rooms on Queen Street (now Erskine House) on 4 October. In late October 1848, while staying at 10 Warriston Crescent in Edinburgh with the Polish physician Adam Łyszczyński, he wrote out his last will and testament—"a kind of disposition to be made of my stuff in the future, if I should drop dead somewhere", he wrote to Grzymała. <SEP> polish composers of the following generation included virtuosi such as moritz moszkowski, but, in the opinion of j. barrie jones, his "one worthy successor" among his compatriots was karol szymanowski (1882–1937). edvard grieg, antonín dvořák, isaac albéniz, pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky and sergei rachmaninoff, among others, are regarded by critics as having been influenced by chopin's use of national modes and idioms. alexander scriabin was devoted to the music of chopin, and his early published works include nineteen mazurkas, as well as numerous études and preludes; his teacher nikolai zverev drilled him in chopin's works to improve his virtuosity as a performer. in the 20th century, composers who paid homage to (or in some cases parodied) the music of chopin included george crumb, bohuslav martinů, darius milhaud, igor stravinsky and heitor villa-lobos. <SEP> The supporters are the Lion and the Unicorn; the motto is "Dieu et mon droit" (French: "God and my Right"). The Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom are "Quarterly, I and IV Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or [for England]; II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules [for Scotland]; III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent [for Ireland]". Surrounding the shield is a representation of a Garter bearing the motto of the Chivalric order of the same name; "Honi soit qui mal y pense". (Old French: "Shame be to him who thinks evil of it"). In Scotland, the monarch uses an alternative form of the arms in which quarters I and IV represent Scotland, II England, and III Ireland. The mottoes are "In Defens" (an abbreviated form of the Scots "In My Defens God Me Defend") and the motto of the Order of the Thistle; "Nemo me impune lacessit". (Latin: "No-one provokes me with impunity"); the supporters are the unicorn and lion, who support both the escutcheon and lances, from which fly the flags of Scotland and England. <SEP> chopin seldom performed publicly in paris. in later years he generally gave a single annual concert at the salle pleyel, a venue that seated three hundred. he played more frequently at salons, but preferred playing at his own paris apartment for small groups of friends. the musicologist arthur hedley has observed that "as a pianist chopin was unique in acquiring a reputation of the highest order on the basis of a minimum of public appearances—few more than thirty in the course of his lifetime." the list of musicians who took part in some of his concerts provides an indication of the richness of parisian artistic life during this period. examples include a concert on 23 march 1833, in which chopin, liszt and hiller performed (on pianos) a concerto by j.s. bach for three keyboards; and, on 3 march 1838, a concert in which chopin, his pupil adolphe gutmann, charles-valentin alkan, and alkan's teacher joseph zimmermann performed alkan's arrangement, for eight hands, of two movements from beethoven's 7th symphony. chopin was also involved in the composition of liszt's hexameron; he wrote the sixth (and final) variation on bellini's theme. chopin's music soon found success with publishers, and in 1833 he contracted with maurice schlesinger, who arranged for it to be published not only in france but, through his family connections, also in germany and england. <SEP> The expenses of the funeral and monument, amounting to 5,000 francs, were covered by Jane Stirling, who also paid for the return of the composer's sister Ludwika to Warsaw. Chopin's tombstone, featuring the muse of music, Euterpe, weeping over a broken lyre, was designed and sculpted by Clésinger. Ludwika took Chopin's heart in an urn, preserved in alcohol, back to Poland in 1850. [n 9] She also took a collection of two hundred letters from Sand to Chopin; after 1851 these were returned to Sand, who seems to have destroyed them. <SEP> The Atlantic Ocean and the warming influence of the Gulf Stream affect weather patterns in Ireland. Temperatures differ regionally, with central and eastern areas tending to be more extreme. The highest temperature recorded in Ireland was 33.3 °C (91.9 °F) on 26 June 1887 at Kilkenny Castle in Kilkenny, while the lowest temperature recorded was −19.1 °C (−2.4 °F) at Markree Castle in Sligo. However, due to a temperate oceanic climate, temperatures are seldom lower than −5 °C (23 °F) in winter or higher than 26 °C (79 °F) in summer. Rainfall is more prevalent during winter months and less so during the early months of summer. Southwestern areas experience the most rainfall as a result of south westerly winds, while Dublin receives the least. Sunshine duration is highest in the southeast of the country. The far north and west are two of the windiest regions in Europe, with great potential for wind energy generation.