Klarinet Archive - Posting 001275.txt from 2000/06

From: Joe Fasel <jhf@-----.gov>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mpingo video now available
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:17:55 -0400

| > 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 th=
e
| 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.

And if the Ozzies had coined the term, it would be an "eefie".

--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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