RE: Subject: [Harp-L] Meatwhistle?! I got yer euphemism right here!

["Brian Irving" <zen33569@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could it be a derivative of the german 'mundharmonika'??
Brian

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Subject: Re: Subject: [Harp-L] Meatwhistle?! I got yer euphemism right here!

I am just now living in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which  is 
these days a suburb of Glasgow, (Just across the river) and most  everyone 
here calls the harmonica a "Moothie" as Elizabeth says...
 
John "Whiteboy" Walden
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/16/2012 1:56:29 P.M. GMT Daylight Time, Elizabeth  
writes:

<<  I'll have to take YOUR word for it then, Peter. But it begs the  
question:  
were they Scots or originally from some other part of the  World? Inquiring 
minds  just have to ask because I've also sounded  this off my Scottish 
cousins and  they're as bewildered as I am. It  sounds as though it could 
be Asian  
in origin. 


For my  part (Glasgow raised) we called it a mouth organ. That was pretty   
standard nomenclature for those of us who used 'proper' English  
pronounciation.  Those speaking Glaswegian slang would call it a  'moothie' 
as do many 
other  Scots players I've run into since then,  but munti is definitely a 
new 
one.  Perhaps it's regional to  Edinburgh?


Elizabeth

In a message dated 8/15/2012 10:46:03  P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
madcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  writes:

When I  visited friends in Edinburgh Scotland in 1987,  they called my 
harmonica a   munti.


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On Aug 15, 2012, at  5:57 PM, _EGS1217@xxxxxxxx (mailto:EGS1217@xxxxxxx)   
wrote:


Honestly, Dave--I've never in my life heard of 'munti'  as being the  
Scots' 
version of a harmonica. Are you sure that isn't  a bastardized  spelling of 
'moothie'?

(I've also just done an  online search and  nowhere does 'munti' show   up).