In a session recently, there were several whistlers who, as we all do, spent much time blowing hard through the fipple with a finger over the windway to clear the spit and warm up the instrument.
One bright spark asked if there was an official term for this action - I doubt it but it got me thinking!
I'll bet there is a huge boiling cauldron of wit out there who can come up with a suitably descriptive word for this and who knows, it might end up in the next edition of the New Oxford.
Come on people, don't disappoint!
New dictionary entry
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Philo's "dryholing" comes close.
"Clearing your note"
"Blowing your notes"
It sounds like I've got a bad cold when I say those!
"Spitectomy"
"Fipple-clearing"
Or, in honor of JetBoy, "Jet dry."
If you'd rather to give it a foreign flair, these are all invented (fake) phrases:
"Decrachat" or "decratcher" (French noun and verb for "de-spit")
"Souffler a la vie" (French for "blow to life")
"Moucher le sifflet" (French "blow the whistle" in the way one blows mucus from the nose)
"Sonarse el esputo" (Spanish for "to blow/sound the spit")
"Sonar abierto" (Spanish for "to blow open")
I like "decrachat" (noun) and "decratcher" (verb) best.
"Clearing your note"
"Blowing your notes"
It sounds like I've got a bad cold when I say those!
"Spitectomy"
"Fipple-clearing"
Or, in honor of JetBoy, "Jet dry."
If you'd rather to give it a foreign flair, these are all invented (fake) phrases:
"Decrachat" or "decratcher" (French noun and verb for "de-spit")
"Souffler a la vie" (French for "blow to life")
"Moucher le sifflet" (French "blow the whistle" in the way one blows mucus from the nose)
"Sonarse el esputo" (Spanish for "to blow/sound the spit")
"Sonar abierto" (Spanish for "to blow open")
I like "decrachat" (noun) and "decratcher" (verb) best.
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Thanks. I hope it's bad German; that was the idea. If it's not, oh well. I tried.Adrian wrote:Gets my vote!Nanohedron wrote:Ausschlammblasen.
But that term is for the practice as described. When declogging, I do it the opposite way, like taking a sip. I can do that mid-tune and no one will notice. That one gets called Umgekehrtschlammsaugen.
The process is quicker than the name.
Wait a minute. Nobody's mentioned that one, yet.Myself wrote:When declogging...
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Ausschleimblasen oderNanohedron wrote:Thanks. I hope it's bad German; that was the idea. If it's not, oh well. I tried.Adrian wrote:Gets my vote!Nanohedron wrote:Ausschlammblasen.
But that term is for the practice as described. When declogging, I do it the opposite way, like taking a sip. I can do that mid-tune and no one will notice. That one gets called Umgekehrtschlammsaugen.
The process is quicker than the name.
Wait a minute. Nobody's mentioned that one, yet.Myself wrote:When declogging...
Umgekehrtschleimsaugen would be even worse
.... I always call it
"towarmupputfingeroverventandblowhardafewtimesneverforgetthefingeroverventthough" but that is too long a word eh.... maybe " twupf"
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