[Harp-L] RE: Harp-L Digest, Vol 70, Issue 9

[Jim Adams <tusker23@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

H'mmmm....

 

A honk/horde of harpers? 

A blast of blowers? 

A sea of suckers? 

A team of tongue-blockers? 

A team of tin sandwinistas? 

A drove of diatonists? 

A crowd/chorus of chromaticists? 

A pride/pack of puckerists? 

A drove of diaphragm-dependants?

A load of lungbusters?

 

 

An Apprentice Harpstrangler


> From: David Fertig <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] Gaggles of harmonica players?
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> Hmm, David Naiditch smartly raises (and resolves?) an important issue: 
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> What's a plurality of harmonica players?  David's "gaggle" may be it, if perhaps a bit too aptly suggesting honking geese.  
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> Is there a better plural?  Herd of harmonicists?  Pack of harp players?  Slew of harp suckers?  I suspect the fleet of febrile minds on this list-serve may have a peck of plums to offer . . .  
> 
> Absent a better suggestion, I vote for gaggle!
> 
> Dave "Always Hedging his Bets" Fertig


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