Klarinet Archive - Posting 000643.txt from 2002/04

From: "C.Talbot" <carolyn.talbot@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] A profound question of nomenclature
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:23:12 -0400

Dan and others

I live in "the hills of Appalachia"...........sorry for your predujice :)

CT

On 04.19.2002 at 6:01:35 PM, "Heinemann, Stephen" <sjh@-----.edu>
wrote:

> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, J. Shouryu Nohe wrote:
> >
> > > Since clarinetists refer to the E-flat clarinet as the "eefer," why do
> > we
> > > never hear of the B-flat clarinet as the "beefer"?
> >
> > "Never" is kind of a broad statement to make - we at NMSU use the terms
> > "beefer" and "ayfer" almost as prolifically as we do "eefer."
> >
> Mea culpa for not doing my research. The term has indeed appeared before on
> this list.
>
> However, I'm more mortified for having discovered that four years ago Dan
> Leeson quite properly objected to using the term "eefer." I quote:
>
> "Dignity, ladies and gentlemen, dignity. It is an E-flat clarinet.
> Anything that makes money for us should be called by its real name, not a
> nickname that sounds as if it were invented in the hills of Appalachia."
> And to think that this whole stupid line of thought on my part began when I
> finally got my own good eefer. I mean E-flat clarinet. (It's a Buffer. I
> mean Buffet.)
>
> So, while I'm in my state of mortification, I'll observe that,
> etymologically, the term "ayfer" must certainly refer to an A-flat clarinet.
>
> Abashedly yours,
> Steve Heinemann
> Bradley University
>
>
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> Theory/Composition/Clarinet
> Bradley University
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