Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username
Get ready for a super dumb story!
My username is a misspelling of a Tuvan word. Tuva is part of the Russian Federation, right next to Mongolia in Southern Siberia. Known for khoomei (throat singing), among other things, it was briefly a republic in the early 1900s. The Tuvan word khomus means what in English gets called a Jew's harp, for some reason, or sometimes a trump, it's a drumbel in Pennsylvania dutch. If you tell me your language if you don't speak English, I can probably tell you what it is in your language, since there's a huge collection of names for it. The suffix -tu is the part that's misspelled, I think it should be -chu, so khomuschu, which means somebody who plays the khomus.
In grade school I went out for band and we had to pick three instruments. They stuck me with trumpet, not one of my choices, and I got really bored with trumpet and band. I didn't do anything with music for a while. Then I decided to go get a drumbel. Nobody knew how to play it so I basically ended up making sounds with it. When I found out about Tuvan music, that was the first place I really heard it used as an instrument to play tunes. That really boosted my playing, and it's probably the instrument I'm best at, though I play lots of stuff from around the world, because I listen to a lot of music from around the world. I hear cool sounds, and I want to make them.
But khomus was my first real instrument, so there you go, that's what it means. I've called it khomus for so long it's hard to remember the English word. I'm trying to change to drumbel, because I'm trying to learn Deitsch (Pennsylvania Dutch), a language both sets of my grandparents spoke, but sadly didn't pass on. But it's hard because I've been calling it a khomus, or the language-specific name if it's from another place, for ages now. Here's me and a friend jamming, he's doing guitar, I'm doing khomus. Fair warning, I might curse in this one, I honestly don't remember.
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