Angus Jung wrote:How come, after I posted that Moog was pronounced Mowg (Mow, as in "mow the lawn", guh, yes it rhymes with "Vogue"), there were two other posts that said the same thing?

er, so hard to say. how come anyone posted anything (3 things i think) about moooooooooogs after i did? i thought it was a moot (rhymes with poot) point. i'm just sayin' is all. guess i'm not the internationally recognized authority on pronunciation i once was. crap.

i really just wanted to try and quote another post, actually. my first time. so no offense intended.

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how do u pronounce blumlein? (actually how do you spell it also) I read about this mic postion years ago, and i use it frequently enough that every time a client asks what im doing i prnounces it different and act like i know what im talking about.
a little help? Bloom-lee-in? or bloom-line? or blum-lean? not sure....

Chris

It's "FRAHNK-un-shteen."

chrysler wrote:It's "FRAHNK-un-shteen."

Hump? What hump?

I have a sincere question about "Ibanez." Maybe not the most revered brand in the lot, but during his Husker days Bob Mould bought every Ibanez Flying V he laid eyes upon -- something about the look and their tendency to stay in tune.

Now, is it "EYE bah nez," or "e BAHN yez"? Most musicians (95%+) use the former, but the only reference I can find in print favors the latter. It seems there was a Spanish novelist by the name of Vicente Blasco-Ibanez during the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. He was definitely an "e BAHN yez" man. Readers?

"Ibanez"

A lot of people assume the Hispanic pronunciation of this company, which would be "e BAHN yez". Unfortunately, said company is not of any Hispanic origin: it is of Japanese origin. They figured using a Hispanic name would make them more credible (figuring that, upon reference of the name, one might picture a small Spanish speaking man in a sweatshop in Central America slaving over the perfection of his craft...HA!... well, maybe the part about the sweatshop...). I go with "EYE bun 'ez", if for nothing more than to prove 'em wrong.

what about rhys chatham? i love the guy's music, but i don't know how to pronounce his name...

It's pronounced "Reese."

as in the peanut butter cup?

mmm.... Reese's Peanut Butter Cups....

Angus Jung wrote:It's pronounced "Reese."

i gathered that, but i was wondering about his last name. sorry. guess i should have specified...