Klarinet Archive - Posting 000713.txt from 2002/07
From: Mark Gresham <mgresham@-----.com> Subj: Re: [kl] Terms that make you Wince..... Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:01:15 -0400
GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:
>
> thanos563@-----.com writes:
> > Who can forget that classic Beatles tune "WHen I'm Sixty-Four" It
> > contains not just one clarinet but a quartet of <sic> thee
> > sopranos and a claribass.
>
> Sorry, but the term "Claribass" makes me wince.
How about "paradigm" -- that's a term that makes me wince for sure;
definitely overused.
> It sounds too much like "Claribelle" as in the famed clown on "Howdy Doody".
Isn't that also an organ stop? :-)
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