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Author: clarinet-queen
Date: 2007-06-27 06:19
Both my husband and I are musicians--my husband is a trombonist and myself a clarinetist. Would it send a child into a lifetime of therapy to name a girl Claire Annette? Does anyone have other "musical" names?
Holly, private clarinet instructor, Buffet R13, Borbeck MP, Rovner Lig, Mitchell Lurie 4-4.5 reeds
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-06-27 06:47
As long as you stick with halfway common names and don't resort to "Rubato" or "Coda"... ;-)
I wouldn't pick "musical" names but rather musicians' names such as Emma or Maria or Sabine or Kenny. (I'd abstain from Acker, tho')
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Ben
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2007-06-27 11:23
I used to tutor someone nameed Symphanie. Yes, I know it's misspelled. Her parents were probably about as bright as she was.
Jeff
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-06-27 13:10
Our first daughter, Carol. Wisely refrained from Pete/Repeat and Lim/Ham for our boys, Don Berger
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-06-27 13:25
"Aria" would be a nice girl's name, I think.
"Celeste," more traditional.
"Viola" -- very old fashioned.
"Reed" -- for a boy.
"Case" (Casey) -- ditto.
S.
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Author: SavvyClarinet
Date: 2007-06-27 14:06
Melody. I met someone with this name who refused to answer unless we called her Melo-dizzle.
Vandoren. Very original.
Rico.
I'll keep thinking.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2007-06-27 14:07
Here are some famous composer's first names, you get the idea. Pick your favorite composer's first name:
Serge (Prokoviev)
Darius (Milhaud)
Amadeus (Mozart)
Camille (Saint-Saens) boy or girl
Bela (Bartok)
Francis (Poulenc) boy or girl
Etc. Good luck
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-06-27 14:42
There's always Sabine (three syllables - pronounced Za-bee'-ne).
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2007-06-27 14:58
Claire is a perfectly wonderful name. I have a granddaughter named Claire. She's a ballerina. No one will notice the middle name anyway, and even if they do it's a nice name.
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-06-27 15:48
"Would it send a child into a lifetime of therapy to name a girl Claire Annette"
Claire is a beautiful name too. just don't add annette as the last name. kids catch on quick, and your daughter might rebel faster than you think.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: Bradley
Date: 2007-06-27 16:14
I know a girl (who was a serious vocalist for a while) whose parents named her Symphony. Her middle name? Music.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-06-27 16:20
> (...) named her Symphony. Her middle name? Music.
In a way I'm glad that "vanity" names aren't accepted here...
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Ben
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Author: claritoot26
Date: 2007-06-27 18:31
I once new a girl named Story. Her two sisters were named Novel and....some other literary name. Poem, maybe? Not musical, but weird nonetheless.
I think Claire Annette is a cute name.
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Author: gmofclarinet
Date: 2007-06-27 19:46
I have always said that I'm going to name my daughter Claire Annette!! haha... I thought I was the only one out there.... it is cute... but now I'm not liking it... :-/ it really is up to you...
--Mindy
www.lochwoodacademy.com
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Author: Grant
Date: 2007-06-27 19:57
My one year old grand daughter is named Harmony. Her three year old sister WendyJo wants to be a rock musician but I am trying to reform her.On the subject of strange names my Great Aunt Elsie worked for a family in Portland OR who named their son Leather. I still find it hard to believe but she wasn,t one to kid.
Peace on Earth and May You always have a reed that PLAYS.
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2007-06-27 20:01
Chris- your pronunciation of Sabine is wrong. "Sa" is pronounced "Sa" in German, not "Za".
And please don't try to argue by mentioning Sauerkraut- that's "Sau"!
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-06-27 20:08
But doesn't the German 'S' sound softer than our hard-sounding 'S', and nearer to our 'Z' (which we call 'Zed')?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2007-06-27 20:20)
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Author: tetiana
Date: 2007-06-27 20:11
The you could adapt "con dolcezza" and wind up with ......
tetiana
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Author: Bubalooy
Date: 2007-06-27 20:24
The German s is not a vocalized sound like the English Z the s is an s as in sic.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-06-27 20:28
I'll just forget everything I was taught.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: bufclar
Date: 2007-06-27 20:56
A really cool name somewhat popular with the Irish is Lyric. I've always liked that one.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-06-27 20:56
> I'll just forget everything I was taught.
Just close your eyes and think of Superglue.
--
Ben
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Author: GoatTnder
Date: 2007-06-28 10:39
A good female friend of mine was named Master by her father. Definitely an 'out there' name, but she never had any issues with it. It's really not the name so much as how you treat it, I guess.
Edit: John J. - I'm pretty sure Mozart's first name was Wolfgang. But, Amadeus is a better sounding name. :D
-Andy Cabrera
a.l.cabrera@gmail.com
Post Edited (2007-06-28 10:40)
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Author: 2E
Date: 2007-06-28 13:13
Twin brothers Chalumeau and Clarion hahaha. 2E
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2007-06-28 17:57
"Edit: John J. - I'm pretty sure Mozart's first name was Wolfgang. But, Amadeus is a better sounding name. :D"
Yes Andy, Mozart's first name was Wolfgang, but he choose the name "Amadeus" as a fancy sounding middle name, so I thought it also sounded better for a Baby name. But any first, middle, or last name of a famous composer will do.
Dave Brubeck, the famous Jazz pianist, named his son "DARIUS" after his teacher and famous composer Darius Milhaud.
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: tetiana
Date: 2007-06-29 17:53
Mozart was actually called baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Biobliographers give his name as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart. The "Theophilus" is the equivalent of "Gottlieb" and eventually became "Amadeus".
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Author: Sarah Elbaz
Date: 2007-06-29 19:28
Yuval is the first musician in the Bible. In Israel, the name Yuval is given to boys and girls.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-06-30 12:28
Maybe Amadeus is a safer name now than it would have been just over 20 years ago - the poor kid named Amadeus would have to put up with the entire school singing 'Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus, Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus, Amadeus Amadeus, o - o - o - Amadeus' endlessly at him.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: quilter_gal
Date: 2007-06-30 15:22
Claire is a gorgeous name. Annette is also beautiful (but i knew someone when I was growing up with that name and....)
But keep in mind that the middle name won't be a "cute little secret". Most schools include first, middle, last names when reading names at graduation and put them on diplomas (that's high school - age 17 - how sensitive are peers at that age!?). Plus it is required in most states on a Drivers License, as well as on a social security card. Here in MD the middle name is required on your utility account so it's in the little window of the bill every month for everyone to see.
So rather than use a cute combination first-middle name that might make your child the butt of jokes (Polly Esther?), make it a name the kid can live with their while lives without worrying about the middle name "leaking out". My college roomie spent her life hiding her middle name (Gilberta, anyone?) and she made it clear - it wasn't much fun.
Janet
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-06-30 16:06
Or just don't have a middle name at all - I don't have a middle name and it's done me no harm (though it'd be interesting to know what it may have been, if it was ever considered). Even the Oirish Cat'lic side of my family had no problem with that.
But I do know if I happened to have been born a girl, my name would have been Chantal (pronounced in these parts as Shahn-taow'), again without a middle name.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-06-30 16:28
FWIW our kids have three names each. Only the first one's used, the other two are spares if they feel like changing their personality etc.
Ever since Erik the Eefer (in ahr family), the 2nd name is inherited from the parents, so the older got my girl name (had I been a girl), the younger has my wife's first name. None of which are famous in any way. Tradition!, as Tevye would put it.
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Ben
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Author: ginny
Date: 2007-06-30 19:36
I was contemplating Clare Annette, Clare Isabelle and Amanda Lynn for names had I had any girl children.
I have all sons, go figure. I couldn't come up with suitable pun boys names. Maxwell David, my clarinetist son, was almost Maxwell S. Damian for Maxwell's Demon, but we thought better of it. He knows of the little physics concept he was nearly named after.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-06-30 20:07
Paige Turner
Rusty Piston (future trumpet player)
Anne Dante
Belle Tone
Tamara Zanutha Day
Bertha De Blues
Walt Smedley (future musical arranger)
Justin Tune
Lew Slips (future trombonist)
Bret Support
his evil twin: Buster Gutt
and the ultimate clarinet name:
ANITA GOOD REID
...GBK
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2007-07-01 04:11
'Hemiola' always seemed a horrible word to me... Like "The doctor said I have a hemiola on my butt"...
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Author: Klarinet
Date: 2007-07-03 10:55
To Peter Spriggs:
There's actually a Belgian cyclist who's called Tom Boonen (Boonen is his last name), but I never made any connection with music (or trombone) when seeing him on tv.
Musical names that are used here in Belgium (and the Netherlands):
Do
Mi (for Marie)
Viola
Remy
Cecilia (patrones of musicians)
I also knew a Thai girl once who was called Lah (her whole name was to difficult to pronounce).
Naming a child after a composer is also a good idea. My last cat was named Czerny and the one I have now is Rimski.
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Author: awm34
Date: 2007-07-03 13:49
A number of years ago my wife named a pet Chinese Shar-pei "Fredericka" after her favorite opera singer (Fredericka von Stade). We called her "Freddie".
I mentioned this in response to a stranger's question her one day in a nearby park. He turned out to be a friend of von Stade's who was charmed by our dog's name and he was sure she would be too once he told her.
Alan Messer
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Author: old999
Date: 2007-07-04 10:34
Chalameau
Buffet
Selma (for Selmer)
Belle
Hyacinthe (for Klose)
-- Al
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2007-07-06 08:10
Symphony, Harmony, Rhapsody, Melody and err.. Destiny (oops - too much Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)
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Author: michinoku
Date: 2007-07-06 14:47
it might be more satisfying and discreet to incorporate one of your favorite performers' names into your child's, since it could be common enough that they'd never realize the psychological distress until you were gone.
If I ever get the chance to name a kid, and my partner would let me, their middle name might be Dolphy.
-m
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Author: Wittlenix
Date: 2007-07-13 12:59
what about Charla Moe
or Maya Strough
I know a clarinet teacher David Reid. He was destined to play the instrument....
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-07-13 13:05
> I know a clarinet teacher David Reid. He was destined to play the
> instrument....
A dentist nearby's name is "Angst". Pretty cool name for that profession. ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
--
Ben
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2007-07-14 02:06
When I was in a high school honors band there were two musicians from another school named (I'm not making this up) Clark Barr and Candy Barr.
(I know, those are not musical names -- just odd names for musicians)
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Author: RodRubber
Date: 2007-07-14 05:51
There was a guy at my college named Paul Hindemith, and he was a violist. No joke.
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Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-07-15 07:08
"There was a guy at my college named Paul Hindemith, and he was a violist. No joke.
Rod _ Rubber"
You must be OLD :{ (thats a moustache)
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