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Author: CPW
Date: 2003-11-01 18:43
Clarinet makers are luthiers.
Barrel makers are Coopers.
So.....What are mouthpiece makers?
(soto voce: this should be good)
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-11-01 18:48
Very OLD, Vintage? terminology? Go to a dictionary! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2003-11-01 19:35
I thought "luthier" only referred to string instrument makers.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-11-01 20:04
Micaela wrote:
> I thought "luthier" only referred to string instrument makers.
So did I. The OED show the etymology directly from the lute.
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Author: CPW
Date: 2003-11-01 23:13
Gougers...depends on price, SB
Plastic surgeons...hmm, wonder if Botox works on embrouchure
I know one mouthpiece maker that I would consider a Proctologist. I would tell him that right to his a_ _ if only I could find him.
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Author: Douglas
Date: 2003-11-02 13:51
Dentures? Sounds right to me...considering the amount of money I've spent on mouthpieces, does that make me indentured?
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Author: William
Date: 2003-11-02 15:33
If "luthiers" does refer also to wind instrument makers, then the barrel and mouthpiece makers would also be luthierians as a complete clarinet includes those two specific components. However, those makers who customize mouthpieces and barrel--often marketing them at exorbitant prices--might be classified as Luthier's Bastard Sons (unless, of course, they make "good" ones).
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-11-02 18:20
I also love words, their derivations and our play on them!! Not having a BIG Webster at home, I went to what US and foreign-Eng dicts I have. A Fr-Eng gives luthier as "musical inst maker" derived from lute, of course. This agrees with the above, and distinguishes from Luther [etc] and Lothario, wasn't he a Shakespeare character?? Just more gasoline to keep this fire burning brightly/smokily!! Don
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-11-02 21:03
Mark - you use the Old English Dictionary? (ducks for cover)
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-11-02 21:09
diz wrote:
> Mark - you use the Old English Dictionary? (ducks for cover)
Yup (luckily, one of my library cards lets me access it online ...)
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-11-02 21:34
Maybe a clarinet maker should be called a torturer. A mouthpiece maker would then merely become a torturers assistant as would a reed maker.
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2003-11-02 21:56
Or maybe a composer---Didn't he write "The Torturer's Apprentice?"
Bob A
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-11-02 23:12
Very apt, Bob A, considering the almost unplayable wind writting (and string for that matter).
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