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BS: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....

02 Jan 02 - 07:07 PM (#620117)
Subject: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....
From: Justa Picker

(A friend sent this to me today. I felt compelled to share it.)


Musical Terms Misunderstood by Country and Western Musicians

Diminished fifth - An empty bottle of Jack Daniels.

Perfect Fifth - A full bottle of Jack Daniels.

Ritard - There's one in every family.

Relative Major - An uncle in the Marine Corps.

Relative Minor - A girlfriend.

Big Band - When the bar pays enough to bring in two banjo players.

Repeat - What you do until they expel you.

Treble - Wimmen ain't nothing but.

Bass - The things you run around in softball.

Portamento - A foreign country you've always wanted to visit.

Conductor - The man who punches your ticket to Birmingham.
Tempo - Good choice for a used car.

A440 - The highway that runs around Nashville.

Transpositions - Men who wear dresses.

Cut Time - parole.

Order of Sharps - What a wimp gets at the bar.

Passing tone - Frequently heard near the baked beans at family bar-be-ques

Middle C - The only fruit drink you can afford when food stamps are low.

Cadenza - That ugly thing your wife always vacuums dog hair off of when company comes.

Whole note - What's due after failing to pay the mortgage for a year.

Clef - What you try never to fall off.

Bass Clef - Where you wind up if you do fall off.

Minor third - Your approximate age and grade at the completion of formal schooling.

Melodic third - Loretta Lynn's singing dad.

12 tone scale - The thing the state police weigh your tractor trailer truck with.

Quarter Tone - What most standard pick-ups can haul.

Sonata - What you get from a bad cold or hay fever.

Clarinet - Name used on your second daughter if you've already used Betty Jo.

Cello - The proper way to answer the phone.

Bassoon - Typical response when asked what you hope to catch.

French Horn - Your wife says you smell like a cheap one when you come in at 4 A.M.

Cymbal - What they use on deer crossing signs so you know what to sight-in your pistol with.

Bossa Nova - The car your foreman drives.

Time signature - What you need from your boss when you forget to clock in.

First Inversion - Grandpa's battle group at Normandy.

Staccato - How you did all the ceilings in your mobile home.

Aeolian Mode - How you like Grandma's cherry pie.

Bach Chorale - The place behind the barn where you keep the horses.


02 Jan 02 - 07:55 PM (#620126)
Subject: RE: BS: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....
From: Morticia

you mean a diminished fifth isn't, a bottle of Jack Daniels???


02 Jan 02 - 08:12 PM (#620127)
Subject: RE: BS: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

Tutti - worn by a ballerina
Moderato assai- somewhat of an ass
Tempo - replacement typist
andante piú marcato - and aunty stinks up the market
This could go on forever...


02 Jan 02 - 08:29 PM (#620129)
Subject: RE: BS: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....
From: artbrooks

Everbody nos that thu place ya heer a passin tone is a bob-que.


02 Jan 02 - 10:29 PM (#620198)
Subject: RE: BS: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....
From: katlaughing

LMAO!!


02 Jan 02 - 10:50 PM (#620202)
Subject: RE: BS: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....
From: Sorcha

Too funny! Thanks, JP!


02 Jan 02 - 11:03 PM (#620209)
Subject: RE: BS: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....
From: catspaw49

And while you're at it.......Ya' know what makes some of this funny? It's believable by some of the C&W fan types.......Y'all need to ceck out the latest in the Bill Monroe Tie thread.....Now you can get a shirt, a pie pan and a pie plate.......Truth is soooo astounding sometimes.

Spaw


02 Jan 02 - 11:41 PM (#620225)
Subject: RE: BS: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)

A pie pan? And a pie plate? add cap and shoes and you will be cap-à-pie.


03 Jan 02 - 01:42 PM (#620436)
Subject: RE: BS: Musical Terms Misunderstood By C&W....
From: Jim Krause

Ah great stuff. Where's Chester? I thought I smelled him around here somewhere.
Jim