Klarinet Archive - Posting 000425.txt from 2004/04

From: "Thiel, Mark" <mark.thiel@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] correct spelling
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:38:39 -0400

Ginger wrote:
>Hehe... That reminds me of way back in the day when my 15 year old, in
all >my dumbness, kept spelling it "Armbrochure" ... It was quite
amusing when >my clarinet teacher from the West Point Army Band had to
correct me. I will >never misspell it again :)

I would have liked to have seen that -- I presume 700 one-handed pushups
while simultaneously playing all major and (natural, melodic, harmonic)
minor scales?

It's interesting how the R creeps into foreign words. Perhaps for
embouchure it's confusion with the also French "embrasure" or maybe
armature that does it. However I think all radio announcers must have
been carefully taught to give the "Kertchel" rating when playing Mozart.

Mark Thiel

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