Klarinet Archive - Posting 000631.txt from 1999/03

From: Edinger/Gilman <wde1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Piksiass clarinets
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:02:22 -0500

Klaus Pehl wrote:

'"W|st a Piksiass Hvlzl hean" Klassisches Wiener Schrammelquartett
The title is Viennese dialect and means "Wan'a hear a sugar sweet little

piece of wood?"'

I think there was a translation problem (program incompatibility) here,
and that umlauted letters came out wrong: "W|st" should be wuest (using
ue for u-umlaut), hvlz should be hoelz (an derivation of Holz, or
wood?), etc. However, I find the term Piksiass intriguing - sounds more
like it came from Parris Island than the Ringstrasse. Is this a
put-on? It's a pretty funny one, either way.

Bill Edinger

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