Klarinet Archive - Posting 000942.txt from 2000/01

From: Joe Fasel <jhf@-----.gov>
Subj: Re: [kl] horn
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:00:34 -0500

Dan Leeson writes
| There are many such terms used including the unusual "axe." Why a
| musical instrument should be called an "axe" has always eluded me.

I think it has to do with the woodshed metaphor for practicing.

--Joe

Joseph H. Fasel, Ph.D. email: jhf@-----.gov
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