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Reese CHATum.

Mind you, I've never heard the guy himself pronounce it...

Speaking of which, I felt vindicated when Thomas Pynchon was on the Simpsons and said his own name as PynCHON. People always said PINCHun and, for no real reason, I just didn't think that was right.

Moog Pronunciation Revisited!

Check this out, from an article in the July 1996 Keyboard Magazine:

According to Bob Moog, his name was originally pronounced "moo-g." But his former wife Shirleigh taught the first grade, and when she told her students to call her Mrs. Moog, the kids had way too much fun making cow noises. At her request, the pronunciation was changed to "moe-g." Today, Bob diplomatically says, "Either is correct."

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Chris Hardings wrote:how do u pronounce blumlein?

It's bloom-line. It is a german word for a little flower.

Hello,

I agree that paiste is pronounced pie-stee and it has always annoyed me (in my own private way) how people pronounce is payste. The best one I ever heard was a drum student of mine who called it pasatee. He was quite insistant that he was right about this. Mind you he did a fantastic impression of C. Montgomery Burns so he is forgiven.

The Flaming lips; there is a band with a couple of names I'm not sure how to pronouce.

Wayne Coyne
Steve Drozd

(they're just not the same without Ronald)

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Fellbrick wrote:

sybd wrote:Moog is pronounced mOOg/mogue - rhymes w/ Vogue

Source: Bob Moog

...or so I've read.....

Indeed... Robert Moog is in a Theremin documentary, and says his own last name. Rhymes w/ Vogue

He lives here in Asheville, a few blocks from me. When I was in college about 10 years ago, my roommate and I were quite in an altered state of mind, and decided to crank call him because he was in the phone book.

Let's just say we got an earful from Mr. Moog

Oh, and I can vouch for CHATHAM being pronnouced "Chaddum".

instant_zen wrote:If someone who knows him personally could prove me wrong, it'd be appreciated... I always thought it rhymed with "hey". I once met a former club bouncer who beat him up on one occasion (he allegedly yelled at this club bouncer-- someone I wouldn't have messed with in a million years for a million dollars-- for drinking beer), and the bouncer-guy pronounced it as described above.

I haven't seen Instrument; i'm sure the answer lies somewhere therein.

Guy Piccioto = Gi (like a karate robe) Pishoto; rhymes with "me" and "this photo"

Ian MacKaye = Ian Muck-Eye, accent on "eye"

something i can't get a straight answer on... this band, Shellac. is it pronounced SHELL-ick, as in rhymes with tom SELLECK, or she-LACK as in "my girl's boomin' up top and all, but she lack in the back, knowhai'mesayin?" i always wondered which of those two was the correct pronounciation. cause there aren't any other possibilities, y'know? it pretty much HAS to be one of those two. i lean towards SHELL-ick, cause it makes me think of higgins and his dobermans. man, that guy had it good.

endofanera wrote:Guy Piccioto = Gi (like a karate robe) Pishoto; rhymes with "me" and "this photo"

I just realized how confusing that looked, using "Gi," as in karate robe, as an example, especially since folks would be just as likely to read that "i" as a long "i" and not an "ee" sound, but if I wrote "Gee" it woulda looked like it sounds like "Jee." His first name is "Gee" with a hard "g," like in groceries.

A gi is a karate robe, right? Jeez.

most mispronounced word in music...

Moog.

It's not Moo-g (like a cow).

It's long O sound like Toad.

If Moog rhymes w/ Vogue...

Then how does one pronounce MoogerFooger?