Klarinet Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 2003/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kegelstadt (Was Clarinet in Movies)
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 10:14:33 -0500

At 09:20 PM 1/4/2003 -0800, Neil Leupold wrote:
>I wasn't going to say anything. Anyway, "Kegelstadt" is
>incorrect. "Kegelstatt" is not a game,
>but a place, in this case an 18th century version of a bowling alley,
>where "ein Kegel" is, in
>this case, a bowling pin (e.g., nine-pin, a skittle) and "Kegeln" is the
>German verb for the
>expression "to bowl". There is an article on woodwind.org, by Stan Geidel
>I believe, which
>discusses the origin and authenticity of the "trio" in question, if
>anybody cares to do a search.

There is an English word "keggling" which is a synonym for "bowling," used
occasionally among those who play the sport regularly
("kegglers"). Obviously this is the origin of the term. I could go for a
game with 10 Chinese-made garbage clarinets used as pins...

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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