Klarinet Archive - Posting 000065.txt from 2003/01

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kegelstadt
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:51:22 -0500

Erroneous editions, imprecise language sites, and reasoning on a generalized level that is shaky
at best.

--- Jim Lytthans <lytthans@-----.net> wrote:
> My three editions of the Trio are all spelled "Kegelstadt". I did an online
> search of the word and found many German language sites that spell it that
> way. "Cone-city" is a good translation, since the pins for this old game of
> table bowling were somewhat cone shaped, not the hourglass shape of our
> modern pins. Whether Mozart composed the trio between frames is a matter of
> historical speculation, though.
>
>
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> Jim Lytthans
> Anaheim, CA
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