Klarinet Archive - Posting 001223.txt from 2000/06

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mpingo video now available
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:12:45 -0400

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From: "Alf Hörberg" <alf.horberg@-----.se>
Subject: SV: [kl] Mpingo video now available

> Pardon a foreigner, but why do you call the E-flat clarinet an "eefer"
> anyway? If slang, what does it refer to?
>

It is slang. I don't believe there is any particular history behind the
choice of the term. It is a little faster to say "eefer" rather than E-flat
but not much. Americans just like to come up with short, snappy slang words
for things.

Dee Hays

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