Klarinet Archive - Posting 000083.txt from 2005/06

From: X-UH-MailScanner-r.n.taylor@-----.uk
Subj: RE: [kl] Personal prejudice
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 05:18:23 -0400

I've often wondered about the word 'horn' for clarinet - I must confess I
hadn't come across it until I started reading this list, and yet it's
obviously common currency in the US. Until then when I heard the word 'horn'
I'd think of jazz musicians, usually trumpet players or saxophonists or
maybe jazz clarinetists. 'Man with a horn goes Bezerk' (Buster Bailey) - now
there's a title! And a hell of a piece too. It seems natural in that
context, but for some 'staid British' (2 other terms that are often linked)
reason, I find I hesitate to use the word. It's almost as if I'd be lending
myself a spurious glamour, and we wouldn't want that, would we?

I read that there is a trend in US media circles to use some strong British
vernacular words from time to time, but I don't imagine 'drink sodden
popinjay' has caught on yet.

Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Lloyd [mailto:matthew@-----.uk]
Sent: 02 June 2005 20:58
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Personal prejudice

Tony,

I think there are a lot of us on our side of the pond who think like this.

But, as we're outnumbered, we keep our heads down - most of the time!

Matthew

PS. Do you really mean that pinkies get up your nose? I have a mental
picture of lots of Americans "grossing out"!.......

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony.p@-----.org]
Sent: 02 June 2005 18:12
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Personal prejudice

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