Re: Re: [Harp-L] Hunting for a bucket of icy ice

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry Winslow;
                         Some of us are naturally 'wordy'.
RD


>>> Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> 21/10/2008 16:07 >>>
You guys are thinking too hard.

When something has the quality of goo, you say it's gooey.

If it has a lot of lumps, you say it's lumpy.

If it's like ice, you say it's icy.

I think that Iceman was going beyond simply describing a harmonica-like sound, though. He's trying to identify (and disparage) something all too many harmonica players do - going out fo their way to play a characteristic harmonica sound just because they can (or doing it without even thinking about it because it's habitual) - instead of being musical.

Hence "harmonicaeee."

Yeah, it looks bad on the page. But try saying it out loud: "Ugh, that sounds all harmonicaeee. Don't get too close, it might spatter on you and it's nasty stuff to get off."

Winslow 

--- On Mon, 10/20/08, David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  Re: [Harp-L] Hunting for a bucket of ice in the Summertime
> To: "Harp L Harp L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 9:11 PM
> harpish sounds a little prissish to me. I'm gonna go
> medieval Latin on y'all... Harpessentia. 
> Or
> In my younger days, I wanted to be a medieval scholar
> (didn't finish graduate school for health reason) and
> back in the day I was pretty good with the Medieval
> Middle English and whatnot. Thus, I suggest the Middle
> English pairing of the noun and preposition (the Attwell
> family, for instance, would have lived "at  a
> well"). Folks were poor in them days and didn't
> have a lot of prepositions (seriously) and they were pretty
> fond of "at" they used it more than
> "the" and I think would have used it here too to
> describe what you're talking about. So, I propose
> "Atharp." I can hear ol' Geoff Chaucer saying
> "Git-R-Done" on that one. 
> Sentence, modern English
> "This harmonica's Atharp sound really sucks."
> Can't resist some Middle...
> "I herde mi Atharp neoise, I herte hit to deth."
> 
> I might just start using this word. I've been looking
> for something to describe some of the quirkiness that is
> unique to an individual harp. 
> 
> 
> Dave
> _______________________________
> Dave Payne Sr. 
> Elk RIver Harmonicas
> www.elkriverharmonicas.com 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: d.flendrich <darple.flendrich@xxxxxxxxx>;
> harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:49:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [Harp-L] Hunting for a bucket of ice in
> the Summertime
> 
> Buddha denies paternity; he says it was one of
> Iceman's. Yes, I did say 'harpish'.
> RD
> 
> >>> "d.flendrich"
> <darple.flendrich@xxxxxxxxx> 21/10/2008 13:33
> >>>
> Rick Dempster wrote:
> > I thought we were looking for a word that described
> licks, 
> > phrases etc. that were suggested by the instrument
> rather 
> > than the imagination of the player: ie chestnuts,
> cliches etc.
> > which is what Iceman was trying to imply by his
> ghastly 
> > invention: 'Harmonicaeee'
> 
> "Harmonicaeee" was an invention of the Buddha
> gypsy.  
> 
> The word you are looking for is "harpish".
> 
> d.f
> 
> 
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