|
|
| Author |
Message |
glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1166
Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
|
 Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:06 am Post subject: |
 |
|
| Also, why do Motörhead have that umlaut over the second letter o like that? |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
mrblanche
Jammin' Hot
Joined: 28 Dec 2005
Posts: 117
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hey, I like that rubbish punchline!
Teisco is almost certainly "tays-co."
Ibanez IS a Spanish name. Although the details are a little dodgy, the Ibanez family built guitars for Hoshino before the Spanish Civil War. During the war, the factory (and the family) disappeared in what has been described as a "fairly messy worker uprising." So the Ibanez workers got to experience a preview of what has gone on continually since then: Their jobs all went to Japan. It's not clear if Hoshino bought or just continued to use the name Ibanez, but I'm sure somewhere along the line they paid something to someone somewhere just to avoid future paper-engorged meetings in courtrooms around the world. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
Posts: 3340
Location: London, UK
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| mrblanche wrote: |
I live in Texas, by the way. . |
is that Texas in Paris?
Are we there yet? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
Posts: 3340
Location: London, UK
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| glw wrote: | | Also, why do Motörhead have that umlaut over the second letter o like that? |
Probably a Gimmick |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mrblanche
Jammin' Hot
Joined: 28 Dec 2005
Posts: 117
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
[/quote]
is that Texas in Paris?
Are we there yet?[/quote]
There IS a Paris in Texas. As well as an Iraan (yes, that's spelled correctly), Reno, Italy, etc. When you settle an area pretty quickly, names tend to be descriptive or derivative.
I, personally, live in Cedar Hill. It's the highest spot between the Red River and the Gulf of Mexico in eastern Texas. If you listen to radio or watch TV in the DFW Metroplex (a name that drives most non-Texans up the wall), the signal came from Cedar Hill.
But we DO have names to determine if someone is from Texas:
Waxahachie
Mexia
Bexar
Boerne
Groene
Alvarado
Rio Vista.
Only natives or long-time residents will get them right, since many defy logic or phonics.
Just got my Ibanez SA160 from UPS. Love it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3863
Location: "Hit The North"
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:03 am Post subject: |
|
|
This deserves total congrats for the barmiest thread, only in the New Year  (I'm enjoying this, sorry Lee).
The "Ibanez" thing does all add up as you say, Blanche, and it would be "Eebahnyez" in Spanish and "Eebahnyez" in Japanese (AFAIK) but I'll just be a Philistine and call them "Eyebunez" as before.
I reckon we think "Tays-coh" because of our background in Romance languages, Blanche. In English or Japanese, there's no reason for it. Bing's coming back into the argument... "You say eevther, I say eyevther, you say neevther, I say neyevther" Let's call the whole thing off.
As for the umlaut, well it does look German and metal and hard but, I'll give them the benefit. The umlaut turns an "o" from hot into hurt, so I suppose it's "Moturhead" for people who need phonics to pronounce words of three syllables. Not that I'm suggesting that people with pork-chop sideburns who habitually stick their heads in stage monitor bins have trouble with three-syllable words. (Don't flame me, I love Motorhead  )
I reviewed a band called "Tin Gods" who had an umlaut over the "o". I asked them if it meant "Tin Goods" and was a satirical comment on shopping as the new religion (typically arsey journo question). They looked at me like I was a typically arsey journo type and explained that they'd run out of the normal "o" letter on the Letraset sheet when they were knocking up the posters 
Anyhoo, we've done "Ibanez". What about Tokai and Greco?
My money's on "Tok-eye" and "Greh-ckoh"
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mrblanche
Jammin' Hot
Joined: 28 Dec 2005
Posts: 117
|
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Oddly enough, this subject has come up a number of times on various Ibanez forums. The feeling is that "ee-bahn-yeth" is correct...but no one uses it. That last "th," by the way, is voiced, as in "this," rather than unvoiced as in "with." |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Tim
Low Frequency Out
Joined: 14 Aug 2005
Posts: 1050
Location: At the back, behind the guitarist.
|
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well would you, really? I do most of my guitar shopping in Leeds...theres no way I'd ask took look at an "ee-bahn-yeth". It's more a case of
"Can a look a t'Ibe-nez' mate" |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1166
Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
|
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I've never liked them enough to ever need to ask that question. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Tim
Low Frequency Out
Joined: 14 Aug 2005
Posts: 1050
Location: At the back, behind the guitarist.
|
| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well, it's kind of hypothetical as I play bass and have no money!
Tim. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
