Klarinet Archive - Posting 000781.txt from 1998/06

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music files to be added to my Web page
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:34:29 -0400

>Peter Stoll writes, in part:
>
>>What's "Banso"? :)
>
>To a query several weeks ago to the effect of "What is Karaoke," I remarked
>that I wasn't sure if Karaoke referred specifically to singing along with
>a pre-recorded orchestral accompaniment and that to extend it to mean
>"instrumentalist playing along" might be incorrect. Literally "Karaoke"
means
>"empty bucket" according to a Japanese correspondent of mine but the
>current usage also allows the meaning that we all know and love.
>In any case, I asked my correspondent to give me his best guess for
>a new word which means "Instrumentalist playing along," and he proposed
>"Banso", so I'm using it advisedly, but fully prepared to drop it if
>it turns out to be redundant or worse, incorrect.

I'll ask my wife tonight for a second opinion, but I have this sneaking
suspicion her word for it would be "Baka".

(Crazy ,:^)

Cheers,
Mark Charette@-----.org

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