TheGreek Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 ...you can always make time to post on BC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalastar Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 22 minutes ago, TheGreek said: ...you can always make time to post on BC. That's just being picky ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 I hope that you're not plecking on me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Grassie said: I call it a pick because I like to say "pick" rather than "plectrum". Plectrum is naff, plec is fine and the same vocal effort as pick but better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassie Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 You say plectrum, I say pick, let's call the whole thing off. Or something... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretmeister Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 It's Register Office and not Registry Office. Alas the wrong one has become so common even a few councils are now using the wrong term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK Jale Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 On 21/08/2018 at 19:18, James Nada said: And it's a scratchplate not a pickguard. Nooooo! Not true. A Precision or a Strat has a scratchplate. An archtop guitar has a pickguard. * * Not a plecguard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 On 21/08/2018 at 19:27, FinnDave said: I play with a pick. Plectrum sounds like some snobby Latin word that oiks like me aren't supposed to understand. And if there's some thing that disturbs my normally placid outlook on life, it is people who insist on using latin plurals. They are obviously unaware that once a loan word has been assimilated into a language, it takes the grammatical forms of the host language. Have you any datums to support that assertion? Coitum volantum non dono. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 (edited) 8 hours ago, mikel said: Yep. Plectrum for the 50+ years I have been playing guitar and bass. Pick is yet another Americanism being absorbed into the musicians vocabulary, like "Kick" instead of bass drum. I have never kicked a bass drum, not intentionally anyway. And why do they call a drum stool a "Throne"? Those crazy Yanks. It's interesting how peoples' experiences differ. I've used the term 'pick' since I started playing guitar in 1974 and I first heard a British* drummer refer to his 'throne' in 1981 though most of them seem to refer to it as a 'stool'. I've only really noticed the 'kick drum' (or just 'kick') thing in the last ten years or so; kick is useful as a substitute which helps more easily to differentiate between 'the bass' and 'the bass drum'. IMO, 'snare and kick' has a more pleasing, snappy verbal rhythm to it than 'snare and bass drum'. Other opinions are available * The drummer in question came from Crouch End so that's technically Britain Edited August 23, 2018 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Discussion as to the importance of a name ... Romeo And Juliet, Act II, Scene II ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsmedunc Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, Grassie said: You say plectrum, I say pick, let's call the whole thing off. Or something... My old Scottish mother used to say "Son, is this yer plooktur?" I think I know what she meant! 😂 Edited August 23, 2018 by itsmedunc 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 ..and my old Scottish mother used to call the neck of my guitar the “handle”. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 3 hours ago, songofthewind said: ..and my old Scottish mother used to call the neck of my guitar the “handle”. My old dad used to call anything with strings 'a banjo' (unless it was 'a Johanna') and anything that one blew into was 'a trumpet'. I told him it was called 'an harmonica' but he wouldn't listen. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikel Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 14 hours ago, skankdelvar said: It's interesting how peoples' experiences differ. I've used the term 'pick' since I started playing guitar in 1974 and I first heard a British* drummer refer to his 'throne' in 1981 though most of them seem to refer to it as a 'stool'. I've only really noticed the 'kick drum' (or just 'kick') thing in the last ten years or so; kick is useful as a substitute which helps more easily to differentiate between 'the bass' and 'the bass drum'. IMO, 'snare and kick' has a more pleasing, snappy verbal rhythm to it than 'snare and bass drum'. Other opinions are available * The drummer in question came from Crouch End so that's technically Britain Then why not call the bass a "Spleen" or any other random word if bass and bass drum is too difficult to understand? Its no more obscure than calling a bass drum a kick. The drummer in 1981 was probably being ironic. On another note, you have an amazing memory for dates re the drummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Vader Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Bass Clarinet, Bass Recorder, Bass Drum, Double Bass, Bass GUITAR (running away) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, EssentialTension said: an harmonica Sometimes known as the Gob Iron. PS; The same chap calls a comb a bug rake. Edited August 24, 2018 by SpondonBassed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Back in the 18th century when he and I were first getting to grips with our relative instruments, a guitarist mate of mine initially referred to them as 'plectrons'. Which I think is a far better name than either pick or plectrum. It has a sci-fi/nerd quality which appeals to my inner geek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said: Sometimes known as the Gob Iron. PS; The same chap calls a comb a bug rake. I call a comb 'no longer needed' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 20 minutes ago, Dave Vader said: Bass Clarinet, Bass Recorder, Bass Drum, Double Bass, Bass GUITAR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Rich said: I get it now...a truck load of thumbs up... At first I thought they were water bottles.... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 3 hours ago, EssentialTension said: I told him it was called 'an harmonica' but he wouldn't listen. With a silent "H".... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalastar Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Shouldn't that be Our Monica? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I think all the Grammar Nazis here should let us pick pleck whichever one we want to use. Now where did I leave me coat?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 1 hour ago, TheGreek said: With a silent "H".... 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) 5 hours ago, mikel said: On another note, you have an amazing memory for dates re the drummer. Not really as this occurred at a sort of turning point in my life and everything remains much more vivid than stuff which happened later. July 1981 was when I moved to London and got my first full-time job. Iain worked at the next desk along from mine and about a week after I started work we were in a rehearsal studio in Leytonstone. As he was setting up his black Rogers kit he mentioned his 'throne'. I thought it a little odd and it stuck in my mind. But I didn't call him out on it or complain that it was inappropriate, this because calling a drum stool 'a throne' wasn't important to me. Edited August 24, 2018 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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