OK, I had a hard day at work with a coworker yesterday (I hate to call him a colleague). Luckily, it was session night, so I felt much better by the time I had gotten home.
I was thinking that this is the only group I could write this to who would understand what I meant:
My coworker is driving me crazy. So I'm going to go to my session to vent and blow my brains out.
What other euphemisms can we use for playing, especially flute or whistle? As in flute tone, noir is good!
At the moment, all the ones I can come up with are far too racey, LOL!
Whew! I'm switching to *iced* coffee...
anniemcu
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Nanohedron wrote:I love the terms "tune cannon" and "stick" applied to the timber flute.
Tune cannon... I like it!
Speaking of instrument labels, whence came the habit of calling a guitar (and later, any other
instrument) one's "axe"? e.g., "Wait, let me tune my axe."
fearfaoin wrote:Speaking of instrument labels, whence came the habit of calling a guitar (and later, any other
instrument) one's "axe"? e.g., "Wait, let me tune my axe."
In the world of jazz, "axe" can refer to any instrument. (I don't the the origin of the applying the term to musical instruments, though.)
Giles: "We few, we happy few."
Spike: "We band of buggered."
Nanohedron wrote:On occasion at bar gigs, when it's time to get going I've said to the other band members, "Well, let's go charm the masses."
If you know anything about the usual experience of playing ITM in US bars, THAT's a euphemism if ever there were one.
What a coincidence -- the first session I ever went to, I took my oboe. By about 11:30 pm, there weren't many people left (it was a Wednesday), and I had a woman dancing on the table, while I played pseudo snake charming music.
