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Author: grenadilla428
Date: 2014-10-30 20:22
Quick question:
I look at the name "Gigliotti" and think "Ji-lee-ah-tee," but I've heard "Ji-glee-ah-tee," "Hill-ee-ah-tee," and even "Gig-lee-ah-tee."
Anyone know which is correct?
Thanks :-)
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2014-10-30 21:24
If I recall my little bit of Italian studying, "gli" is pronounced "lee-ah", so my guess (for $50) is "Ji-lee-ah-tee".
But then again, the correct German pronunciation of my own last name is different than the usual American pronunciation, just as we Yanks say "voaks-waggin'" instead of the proper "foaks-vahgin" when referring to the brand of automobile.
Guess it's up the the Gigliotti family as to how they'd like the name pronounced.
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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2014-10-30 22:53
I suppose your family name might have to do with Spiegeltal or, in the older spelling till 1900, „Spiegelthal“ („Mirror valley“) in the old mining town of Wildemann in the Harz mountains here in Lower Saxony, famous for complicated ancient waterworks for the mines with ponds, channels and galleries (17th centuy philosopher G.W.Leibniz took part in their construction) . In ancient German „Spiegel“ could be used for pond, lake. But how to transcribe it into phonetic American? I'll try my best: here in Hannover perhaps „Speegltahl“- in the rest of Germany it would rather be pronounced „Shpeegltahl“.
http://www.wildemann.de/historische-fotos-spiegeltal/
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Author: kdk
Date: 2014-10-30 23:07
grenadilla428 wrote:
> I look at the name "Gigliotti" and think "Ji-lee-ah-tee,"
> but I've heard "Ji-glee-ah-tee," "Hill-ee-ah-tee," and even
> "Gig-lee-ah-tee."
>
> Anyone know which is correct?
>
> Thanks :-)
He pronounced it more like your first but in 3 syllables: Joo-liah-tee. The liah was all one sound. His son Mark (associate principal bassoonist in the Phila Orch) pronounces it pretty close to the way his father did.
Karl
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2014-10-30 23:29
I remember one lesson with Marcellus when he asked me what mouthpiece I was playing. I happened to be using a Gigliotti at that time and when I pronounced it "Jig-Lee-Aw-Tee" he corrected me to a more "Italianate" pronunciation.
Since then I've studied a little bit of Italian but I have no idea how the clarinetist actually pronounced his own name...
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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2014-10-30 23:30
David: I'm a Swabian only living near Hannover for 40 years so can't answer your question competently. But I'll ask my Italian daughter- in- law when I meet her next time in Dresden. M.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2014-10-30 23:41
Although he used the Italian pronunciation (see my earlier response), his cousin, who is a major building contractor in the Philadelphia area, pronounces it (or at least it's pronounced in his advertising) the way it's spelled - Gig-lee-ah-tee. I think the family must have cringed whenever they heard that.
Karl
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2014-10-31 06:02
My first lesson with him included the proper pronunciation of his name.
Gigliotti = Geel-yetti.
But other than those that studied with him, no one ever pronounces it correctly.
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Author: ned
Date: 2014-11-01 04:41
''My first lesson with him included the proper pronunciation of his name.
Gigliotti = Geel-yetti.''
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Well, I knew a Gigliotti too and he pronounced it as ''Jh-lotty'' Thats a short 'oh'' not ''ah'' in ''lotty'' BTW, for our American friends.
Jolly difficult to write pronunciation you know - just don't roll your Rs either, if you are from USA and you will understand how Brits and Aussies say and hear the letter R.
There are heaps of ways to pronounce Smith too - just speak to a Kiwi for example
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