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02-04-2009, 04:52 AM
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Wondering if there's a good reason?
If not, is there a wit out there with an idea?
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02-04-2009, 05:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: St. John's, NL, Canada | | | From the side, it looks like a frog that's sitting down...kindof...maybe...? |
02-04-2009, 09:15 AM
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02-04-2009, 12:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: New York City | | | I had a violin teacher who explained this to me by loosening the bow all the way that the screw comes out. and then asking the question "Do you know why this is called a frog?" and going "BECAUSE IT JUMPS!" while letting the frog fly from the little socket.
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02-04-2009, 12:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | I thought it was only called that on french bows...
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02-04-2009, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua  I thought it was only called that on french bows... | Maybe on German bows it's Herr Frog! 
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02-04-2009, 12:54 PM
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02-04-2009, 02:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Alberta, Canada | | | Well, in Spanish is "nuez" (nut as in walnut) and in French it is "hausse" (something to regulate height or angle) |
02-04-2009, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by drurb What else would you call it? | The black holdy part?
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02-04-2009, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua The black holdy part? | Out in Hawaii we call it "the black thingymabob"  |
02-04-2009, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Treyzer Out in Hawaii we call it "the black thingymabob" | Sesquipedalian.
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02-04-2009, 03:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Southwestern NY | | | I've thought about that from time to time. But its nice to know that everyone has such a nice sense of humor about it or it might be enough to make me croak.
Actually, I once did try to find out why that part is called the frog, but to no avail. Its just one of the great mysteries of life.
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02-04-2009, 03:21 PM
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ranunculus on french bow
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02-04-2009, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua Sesquipedalian. | Ed, now your just talking dirty! |
02-04-2009, 03:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco | | | why is a cat called a cat?
why is a human called a human?
why is bacon called bacon? |
02-04-2009, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua Sesquipedalian. | You dummy. You know that only applies to foot long hot dogs.
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02-04-2009, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua The black holdy part? | You dummy. No, it's THAT THERE black holdy part, there. 
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02-04-2009, 11:40 PM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | Don't confuse him Paul, and don't try to turn my thread into a smutty one. 
I was talking about the FROG, the black thing with the mother-of-pearl stud through the side, a silver ring around the end and attached to a bunch of long white hairs, that you move back and forth to get a different degree of springiness.
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02-05-2009, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton You dummy. No, it's THAT THERE black holdy part, there. | oof da...
dontcha know... aroun' 'ere I says this I says, "Dat dere holdy part, hey?" .. |
02-05-2009, 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Matthew Tucker Don't confuse him Paul, and don't try to turn my thread into a smutty one.
I was talking about the FROG, the black thing with the mother-of-pearl stud through the side, a silver ring around the end and attached to a bunch of long white hairs, that you move back and forth to get a different degree of springiness. | Look who's talkin' Matthew.....we were both just talkin' frog in the finest sense of the word, as it applies to my German and Ed's French.
It was YOU, who has stepped over that nasty AND tasteless line in talkin' that there marital aid **** I quoted up there, up above there.
As usual, Ed and Myownself pray for you daily.
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