At 11:22 PM -0400 8/5/08, John Howell wrote:
5. 'div. par pupitre'
"divide by stand"
Interesting that two other listers translated this as "divide by
desk." I have never referred to a music stand as anything but a
"stand," never as a "desk." "Music desk"? It even looks weird! The
Manhasset company (I just checked their website) refers only to their
"stands," except when they are speaking very specifically ONLY about
the part that holds the music and not the mechanism that holds it up,
where they do use the word "desk." Perhaps that's a direct
translation of a European word that DOES mean "desk," but it
certainly isn't a term used at my level of performing or teaching.
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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of jazz musicians.
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