Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2004/02

From: "Noel Taylor" <r.n.taylor@-----.ac.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Possibility of making music in the streets / tube inLondon
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:59:25 -0500

I do beg your pardon. It's the term I remember using when I did busk so it's
not even a particularly commonplace word to British English speakers. As you
can imagine, there aren't many lawns in the Underground system, quaint
though our ramshackle old system is. In fact the OED has 'pitch' as a
British usage "a place where a street vendor or performer stations
themselves".

Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:ormondtoby@-----.net]
Sent: 09 February 2004 13:48
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Possibility of making music in the streets / tube inLondon

Noel Taylor wtote:

> Yes - that is a pitch to be avoided if at all
> possible - lots of slightly weird people hang
> out there, and if money is an added attraction
> - you won't get much. I would recommend
> beginning at South Kensington in the
> passage to the museums - the pitch is outside
> the underground so you won't get harassed

It's fun for us Americans sometimes to puzzle out the meaning of
'English' words. I'm fairly certain - after some thought - that
"pitch" means "lawn" or "field"?

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