The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135889   Message #3102726
Posted By: PHJim
25-Feb-11 - 02:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: old words - new meanings
Subject: RE: BS: old words - new meanings
How about the word "acoustic"? Many folks call a plugged in flat top guitar with a piezo pick-up "acoustic". On the TV show Unplugged, the drums were the only instruments that weren't plugged in.
I suppose even a guitar (or banjo, mandolin, ukulele, dulcimer...) being played into a mic is not really acoustic in the original meaning of the word.