Klarinet Archive - Posting 000956.txt from 2000/01

From: "Patra Healey" <plhealey@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 28 Jan 2000 21:15:01 -0000 Issue 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:56:57 -0500

The first time I had heard of a clarinet being called a horn I was in
college. It confused me too at first. All the talk going on about this
made me wonder why musicians call their mouths or embouchers "chops".
Drummers call their hands "chops" too. Does anyone know why?

Patra,
an aspiring New York musician
>
>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 02:39:53 +0100
>To: "klarinet digest" <klarinet@-----.org>
>From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
>Subject: horn
>Message-ID: <000301bf69c6$6fd60000$c9846dc2@-----.nl>
>
>Why do you American guys always speak of a horn where obviously a clarinet
>is meant? To me a horn is such a round-wound brass instrument with valves.
>
>Would anybody on this list please be so kind, and tell me?
>
>TIA
>
>Rien
>
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