LeCompte MEGA Thread!!!!

[elwood]

Kind of like the French surname DuBois (of wood). Here it's pronounced "do BOYS", but the French would be "do BWAH".

[Darren Low]

Originally Posted by budman

"Lu" or "La" with a short vowel pronunciation + "Compt", as in "Comptroller" or "Compton". The "e" on the end is silent.

Ah. I wasn't toooo far off then.

[bassman74]

Hello Mister Lecompte,

I!m francophone so i'll tell you how your name is pronounced in french and what it really means...

In Le, the "L" is pronounced like a a standard "L" and the "E" is pronounce like "e" in "the"

"Le" exactly means "the". It's a definite article

Compte is the french translation of for at least 3words: it can be the verb count, it can be a noun like account, which can means a bank account, or finally a count like count dracula which is from royalty or nobility

Compte is pronounced like compton without the "on"" at the end but with an accent on "com"

The following capital letters will show you on where to put the accent in the pronounciation: LeCOMpte

When i hear Lecompte for me, the first meaning is the count as in royalty...

I hope you prefer this definition "budman"!!!!!

[RLK]

Bud finished my Acid J5 yesterday!
(Mahogany body , Maple Neck, Pau Ferro board, Nordy Big Singles, Passive Vol-Vol-Tone)

My concept render from a while back:




And the actual final product.
The final look sure exceeded my expectations.








Sure do look forward to getting it in my hands.

So I guess my Lecompte trifecta is complete!

[Munjibunga]

Bud has a great variety of body shapes, but the one thing that is consistent is the superb quality of his work. I love my VB5 - it's a tone monster.

[matante]

Originally Posted by Darren Low

This may make me sound dumb, but how is 'LeCompte' pronounced?

Originally Posted by budman

"Lu" or "La" with a short vowel pronunciation + "Compt", as in "Comptroller" or "Compton". The "e" on the end is silent.

I'm told in French it means the "the counter", as in one who counts money, like an accountant or comptroller, who possibly worked for nobility or royalty.

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

That's how I've always pronounced it, but I got to wondering when I saw the Wikipedia entry for LeCompte, Louisiana, in which someone says it's pronounced, "luh-Count." That just doesn't seem right.

"Lu" or "La" is just plain wrong.

"Le" would be pronounced closer to the English words "hood", "book" or "foot".

[Draculea]

Sorry about derailing this a bit from the original topic, but in French the vowel sounds from the word Lecompte simply don't exist, but for reference "Le" is pronounced as if you were pronouncing the E from Elephant and the OO sound from hOOd simultaneously, and your lips as if you were pronouncing the letter U. "Compte" has a nasal O that doesn't exist in English (a significant portion of the air should come out of the nose), but the sound can be pronounced as the O in Other, but the lips as if pronouncing the letter O alone. The P is barely or not pronounced, the T should be pronounced, and as someone else said, the E at the end is mute. Believe me, I'm a languages teacher and I also talk to many French people.

And back on topic, these are great basses, haven't heard or seen much about them but they certainly seem to be something else.

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by Draculea

Sorry about derailing this a bit from the original topic, but in French the vowel sounds from the word Lecompte simply don't exist, but for reference "Le" is pronounced as if you were pronouncing the E from Elephant and the OO sound from hOOd, and your lips as if you were pronouncing the letter U. "Compte" has a nasal O that doesn't exist in English (a significant portion of the air should come out of the nose), but the sound can be pronounced as the O in Other, but the lips as if pronouncing the letter O alone. The P is barely or not pronounced, the T should be pronounced, and as someone else said, the E at the end is mute. Believe me, I'm a languages teacher and I also talk to many French people.

And back on topic, these are great basses, haven't heard or seen much about them but they certainly seem to be something else.

This may all be true, but the correct way to pronounce Bud's last name is the way he pronounces it.

[Draculea]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

This may all be true, but the correct way to pronounce Bud's last name is the way he pronounces it.

Sure, I was just explaining the French pronunciation. same is the case as fellow bassist Jean Baudin, it's a french lastname but since he north American as most of you, it's pronounced with the English pronunciation, and both are fine IMO.

[Draculea]

Originally Posted by bassman74

Hello Mister Lecompte,

I!m francophone so i'll tell you how your name is pronounced in french and what it really means...

In Le, the "L" is pronounced like a a standard "L" and the "E" is pronounce like "e" in "the"

"Le" exactly means "the". It's a definite article

Compte is the french translation of for at least 3words: it can be the verb count, it can be a noun like account, which can means a bank account, or finally a count like count dracula which is from royalty or nobility

Compte is pronounced like compton without the "on"" at the end but with an accent on "com"

The following capital letters will show you on where to put the accent in the pronounciation: LeCOMpte

When i hear Lecompte for me, the first meaning is the count as in royalty...

I hope you prefer this definition "budman"!!!!!

I hadn't read this one for some reason before I posted, spot on explanation and from a native speaker

[matante]

I disagree about the "e" in "le" sounding like the "e" in the "the" (unless you have a very unusual way of saying "the") but let's not derail the thread any further.

[budman]

I'm not from France or Canada or California (though I did live in SOCAL for five years). I'm from the south. I was born in south Louisiana (pronounced Luh-Weezy-Ann-Uh) and lived most of my life in Houston, TX. I don't speak French, though most of my ancestors spoke Cajun French. Wrong or right, all my relatives pronounce my last name name "Luh-compt" (as most people from the south would) and it's highly unlikely any of us will change.

RLK, you're gonna like this bass!