Klarinet Archive - Posting 000952.txt from 2000/06

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Miced? (was Conductors--Rant; Marcellus's Mozart Concert
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:44:50 -0400

The word "miced" had me imagining tiny rodents crawling all over him while
he was trying to play.

Lacy Schroeder

-----Original Message-----
From: Krelove, Karl [mailto:kkrelove@-----.us]
Subject: Re: [kl] Miced? (was Conductors--Rant; Marcellus's Mozart
Concert o)

----- Original Message -----
From: <ShawThings@-----.com>>
> Tony Pay's version is absolutely wonderful although my CD (but not LP)
> reissue seems to be so closely miced that some key noises (with only 5 or
6
> keys!) are irritating.

I only began noticing the use of "mic" as a short name for microphone
relatively recently (several years). Seems to me it always, when I was
growing up and even into my adulthood, was a "mike," different from the
nickname for Michael only in its lower case 'm.' I had to look twice at
Tim's sentence above to realize that "miced" was not a typo and that this
spelling is the logical past tense of "mic" used a s a verb. But it sure
seems odd! Is this now an accepted form and spelling? I guess I'm showing my
age (I'm not yet old enough to retire), but it seems like "mike" and "miked"
were clearer.

Sorry. I had nothing better to do right now.

Karl Krelove

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