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02-29-2008, 11:45 AM
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Builder: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | | What funny pronounciations have you heard various basses called?
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I can think of a few:
I heard a guy say,"what do you think about dem Fondera's
I've heard people call them Shadowskys or Shadowshki's
of course, everybody's heard of Olimpics or Olympics too.
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02-29-2008, 12:03 PM
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02-29-2008, 12:13 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Most folks pronounce it RickenBACHer
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02-29-2008, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Alembicplyr bump | I haven't heard of that brand.  |
02-29-2008, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by need4mospd I haven't heard of that brand. | No just pushed thread to da top. 
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02-29-2008, 12:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Byesville, Ohio, USA | | | I've heard "Skekter", "Jenz-Benz", "Epifani" (but talking about EPIPHONE), "Agwillar", to name a few.
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02-29-2008, 12:48 PM
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Builder: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Puarija I've heard "Skekter", "Jenz-Benz", "Epifani" (but talking about EPIPHONE), "Agwillar", to name a few. | LOL, theres some new ones on me. |
02-29-2008, 01:05 PM
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02-29-2008, 01:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Diego, CA | | | it is not Jenz-Benz? I've never thought I was pronouncing it wrong.
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02-29-2008, 01:16 PM
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02-29-2008, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex Most folks pronounce it RickenBACHer | What's wrong with that? I have a friend who HAS a Rick and he says it like that, and pretty much everyone else I've heard say it. It isn't suppose to be rickenBACKer... it's suppose to be rickenBACHer. Unless you mean like rickenBATCHer? Quote:
Originally Posted by thesteve it is not Jenz-Benz? I've never thought I was pronouncing it wrong. | Me either 
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E-bahn-yez? Sheesh 
Should've gone the Chef-Boyardee route with that and called it Ebanyez. lol
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02-29-2008, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by fryBASS What's wrong with that? I have a friend who HAS a Rick and he says it like that, and pretty much everyone else I've heard say it. It isn't suppose to be rickenBACKer... it's suppose to be rickenBACHer. Unless you mean like rickenBATCHer? | Of course...in this video it's all RickenBACKer... http://youtube.com/watch?v=bSPhBVHh74E
I wonder if it was one of those deals where (like Eddie Rickenbacker) when the spelling was changed, the pronunciation was too.
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02-29-2008, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by thesteve Of course...in this video it's all RickenBACKer... http://youtube.com/watch?v=bSPhBVHh74E
I wonder if it was one of those deals where (like Eddie Rickenbacker) when the spelling was changed, the pronunciation was too. | Yup. Germans weren't too popular in the late 40's.
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02-29-2008, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Alembicplyr No just pushed thread to da top. | It's called humor. 
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02-29-2008, 05:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | I've heard all sorts of mispronunciations when I lived in the Midwest. Funny that you mention Fodera because many of my friends and acquaintances would call it Fedora, like the hat. It didn't help that there was a club called Fedora's in KCMO either.
What else. F Bass. I would say "F Bass" and people would look at me like they were waiting for me to tell them what the F stood for. "You mean like Fender?" they would ask. "No, just F Bass. If you must know, the F is for the maker George's last name, Furlanetto." That only served to make it worse and people were often more confused then when we started. 
I very, very often get people pronouncing Epifani like "epiphany" with the stress on the second syllable. Even my guitarist friend who I've told several times how to pronounce it still forgets. Not a big deal to me though.
I was a drummer before I was a bassist and man, there are lots of different interpretations of brand names there. Like Paiste. Is it "Pie-stee" or "Pay-stee" or simply "Paste"? Is Tama "Tām-ma" or "Tom-ma"? Who cares?
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02-29-2008, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex Most folks pronounce it RickenBACHer | I thought that's how it was pronounced? 
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02-29-2008, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Diego, CA | | | how is Epifani supposed to be pronounced? I tohught it was just like epiphany.
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02-29-2008, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by bassaficionado6 I thought that's how it was pronounced? | Yeah, I don't think it's really a mispronounciation (such as Jenz-Benz) as it is just a different way to say it.
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02-29-2008, 11:28 PM
| | | | My favorite one which I did when I didn't know any better...
Ibanez
I mistook the I for an L and I called Albanez
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03-01-2008, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by thesteve how is Epifani supposed to be pronounced? I tohught it was just like epiphany. | Hold your left hand up, palm toward you, touch your thumb to your fingertips, shake your hand forward and back, and say "Epa - FAWN - e" like you just ate a spicy meatball.
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