[Harp-L] Harpie on vibrato and tremolo (2. attempt)

[Snaruhn@xxxxxxx]

Orrps,

Harpie, this dam guy, sent the first post away while his was just thinking 
what he wanted to say about the subject.

Well, though Harpie is almost an illiterate person he found out  that
in a Hohner catalogue the "Echo harp" was described as a 
"Tremolo-octave tuned" harp. 

Hmmh, this would mean that a tremolo is a pitch changing and is
just the contrary what Rick Dempster said:

< A true 'vibrato' (rhythmic variations in pitch) ........ >

while I always thought that a vibrato is a variation in volume.

But gradually I got the  conviction that the understanding of
"vibrato"and "tremolo" is a further example of the Babylonian
confusion of tongues. Both terms originates from Italian and 
both terms means something like "to tremble" (German: beben). 

In other words: whether "vibrato" or "tremolo" mean a variation
of pitch and volume or reversely depends on the weather forecast. 
    

In fact, when Harpie looked at Wikipedia or musical dictionaries
he found explanations for both definitions, so what?

In this connection Harpie remembered the strange understanding
of "to turn a harp upside down" (one of his linguistic favorites).
He needed some time to understand that in the States it doesn´t
mean that the upper side of a harp = the mpc is now down but that 
the slide knob of a chromatic is now at the left side.

Harpfried