pronunciation...

[Gundi]

Just buy a Fender and be done with it!

 

[bassfran]

I used to work at a recording studio.

One day I took a call from a gentleman hoping to utilize our facilities, taking specific interest in our vintage "New-min" mics, immediately bringing Seinfeld to mind.

I didn't correct him, but it's pronounced 'Noy-min'.

 

[backup]

i like pronouncing names in their native language. i hope i get everythign right:

i-ba-nez (not eye)
a-gi-lar
sheck-ter
gál-li-yen crew-ger (krüger)
epi-fáni
lake-land
war-wick
cóu-biki (cou as in coup and biki as in bikini, russian word meaning "cubes")
atelier zet (atelier french pronounciation, meaning something like workshop)
skjold (nordic word, skjöld)

kruger with the umlaut is pronounced kh-roy-guh in german.

no

What about Sadowsky? Or Drozd?

russian pronounciation:
sadóvsky, (not like sad but sharp s and ah, sad means garden)
drozhd

I didn't correct him, but it's pronounced 'Noy-min'.

almost, german pronounciation: noy-munn with a "u" like in bum.

zain feld, not field.

i add to the list:

moog - mogue

 

[bassfran]

Well, that's what I get for bein' a smart-ass.

(I did write 'feld', though.)

 

[Geroi Asfalta]

Rickenbacker, Krüger, Warwick, Behringer all German names (except maybe Warwick) and it annoys the living hell out of me to hear them mispronounced. I used to speak fluent German (lost a little but still know my way around).

I don't think even John Hall knows how to pronounce Rickenbacker.

Rickenbacker- not Rick-en-baker. No. Ricken-bock-er.
Warwick- For some reason I pronounce it Varick. Though it may just simply be Warwick.
Krüger- Kryu-ger
Behringer- Not Burinjer- Bayrin-gehr

 

[comatosedragon]

I've wondered this for a while, how do you pronounce some of those company names?
Names like:Ibanez

This is a tough one. I almost started my own thread on it. I am Bi-lingual (Latin American Spanish), my wife is a Mexican native and speaks no English. She and I would both pronounce this "E-bahn-yez" (Think former Philadelphia left fielder Raul Ibanez). I realize that the name has become "Americanized", and most people (Including the company itself, from what I can tell) pronounce it "Eye-ben-ez".

I just wonder how pretentious the good folks at Sam Ash are going to think I am when I walk in and ask about an "E-bahn-yez" sr650. I imagine I would be labeled a 'hipster-doofus' for saying it like that, but in my mind, when I see the word written, that's how it sounds.

(maybe I should start a poll and see how other TB'ers say it . . . . )

 

[bholder]

This is a tough one. I almost started my own thread on it. I am Bi-lingual (Latin American Spanish), my wife is a Mexican native and speaks no English. She and I would both pronounce this "E-bahn-yez" (Think former Philadelphia left fielder Raul Ibanez). I realize that the name has become "Americanized", and most people (Including the company itself, from what I can tell) pronounce it "Eye-ben-ez".

I just wonder how pretentious the good folks at Sam Ash are going to think I am when I walk in and ask about an "E-bahn-yez" sr650. I imagine I would be labeled a 'hipster-doofus' for saying it like that, but in my mind, when I see the word written, that's how it sounds.

(maybe I should start a poll and see how other TB'ers say it . . . . )

Well, they obviously wanted to imply the Spanish connection by choosing that name - but the guys at Sam Ash will probably look at you like you're a Martian anyway. Try saying it the Spanish way, but then through a Japanese accent, maybe? I had a Physics professor once with the weirdest accent, he was Japanese, then got his Master's in Germany, learning German, and also learned English while in Germany, then went to Oxford for his PhD, so he had a Japanese-German-German-English accent topped off with a thick Oxford veneer - very curious. I still remember the sound of him talking about "mah-neti molopo" (magnetic monopoles).

 

[ZenG]

Squier is 'Skw-eye-er'...


Gibson is 'Gib-sun'..

MusicMan is ' Mew-sick-man'

Fender is 'Fen-dur'

Gretsch is 'Gresh'

Epiphone is "Gib-sun'

 

[zontar]

Gretsch is 'Gresh'

There is still a "t" sound in Gretsch--
I've met Fred & that's how he pronounced it--as have other representatives of the company
So it's Gret-ch

 

[mellowinman]

You could probably do a search and find a similar thread with all those same names in it.

Anyway though this is how I say them:

Rick-in-bocker
Eye-bah-nez (proper spanish pronunciation would be Ee-bahn-ez)
Ah-gee-lar (it's not "ah-gwee-lar" because in spanish the 'u' is silent in the cases of "gui" and "gue")
Sheck-ter (that's all I've ever heard..I'm sure it would be more guttural in Germany)
Gally-en Crew-ger, I've also heard the similar Gal-yen crew-ger

That's how I say 'em.

brad cook

Everything is more guttural in Germany.

 

[Off-Beat]

The correct pronunciation for "Nady" is "Nudge". I was stunned when I first learned it. I doubt the company uses that pronunciation and probably goes with Naddy, or rhymes-with-lady.

bmc

Guess it's hungarian then. They have weird pronunciations.

kruger with the umlaut is pronounced kh-roy-guh in german.

it is most definitely pronounced "warrick".

i think the german pronounciation of kruger with umlaut is closer to krerr-ger.

i always say Sadowsky as sad-OF-skee, but always wondering.....

i like pronouncing names in their native language. i hope i get everythign right:

gál-li-yen crew-ger (krüger)
epi-fáni

I don't think there's a way to write an ü, so a non german/tartan/turklanguage speaking would understand.

ew = u, oy = eu, err = ör

About Epiphone, do you pick up your fáni or your phone? The founder was an american Greek pretty sure he called it phone as in the distance talking device.
Epiphone means sound above, epiphany is a religious vision.

This is a tough one. I almost started my own thread on it. I am Bi-lingual (Latin American Spanish), my wife is a Mexican native and speaks no English. She and I would both pronounce this "E-bahn-yez" (Think former Philadelphia left fielder Raul Ibanez). I realize that the name has become "Americanized", and most people (Including the company itself, from what I can tell) pronounce it "Eye-ben-ez".

I just wonder how pretentious the good folks at Sam Ash are going to think I am when I walk in and ask about an "E-bahn-yez" sr650. I imagine I would be labeled a 'hipster-doofus' for saying it like that, but in my mind, when I see the word written, that's how it sounds.

(maybe I should start a poll and see how other TB'ers say it . . . . )

Came here for this, but I still pronounce it Ee-bahn-ez, because everythink else would lead to discussion.

Everything is more guttural in Germany.

German differs a lot locally, we'd pronounce that shack-tah. Our prussian neighbors sure would call it Shackt-aiRRR.

 

[Relsom]

I say Kubicki as, Q-bick-e

Coo bee kee

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Jaco

Is it Jake-O or Jahk-O?

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Karaoke is not pronounced Carry Okie.

It's original pronunciation is Kara Okay, meaning "empty orchestra".

It's similar to Karate - Kara Tay, empty hand

Not Kaira, but Kahra

 

[Groove Doctor]

Moog. It's Mow-g, not Mooo-g.

 

[winterburn69]

And how is Babicz pronounced? I'm genuinely curious about this.

 

[Eikari]

Since some German words are being discussed, i would like to add " Munchen". It´s not "Munich"..

 

[El Güero]

So it's Gret-ch

Yeah, like stretch with a G.

 

[HaphAsSard]

Odd thing is, the way "Ibanez" is pronounced in Japanese has shifted, likely from something similar to the original Spanish, to an English-like pronunciation, somewhere between the end of the war and now, but gone one step farther than the usual and predictable adaptation of English names: they say it eye-ba-nee(d)z* instead of -ne(d)z**.


* (with an optional, usually weakened vowel coda, not unlike what my fellow-countryfolk tend to put after every English word ending in a consonant...)
** (The -dz is not the surprising aspect, being the normal rendering of -z for some speakers.)

 

[zontar]

Yeah, like stretch with a G.

Or short for Gretchen...