Klarinet Archive - Posting 000971.txt from 2000/01

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Chops
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 23:00:45 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Fasel" <jhf@-----.gov>
Subject: [kl] Chops

> | 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
>

Perhaps it carried over from the old "mutton chop whiskers" so called
because that is what they looked like.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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