Klarinet Archive - Posting 000961.txt from 2000/01

From: Joe Fasel <jhf@-----.gov>
Subj: [kl] Chops
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:51:35 -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

I had always assumed that "chops" was as in "pieces of meat",
but if drummers also use the term, that suggests that Dave Sandusky
has the right idea (on this list today): that "chops" is also
related to "woodshedding".

Cheers,
--Joe

Joseph H. Fasel, Ph.D. email: jhf@-----.gov
Technology Modeling and Analysis phone: +1 505 667 7158
University of California fax: +1 505 667 2960
Los Alamos National Laboratory postal: TSA-7 MS F609
Los Alamos, NM 87545

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