Re: Need Yiddish Vocabulary for Music

[elliott <enr01...>]

all I know is that we always called it a chaleel since 1940's.

Rachel Fischer wrote:

> what about ugav? that's hebrew though. i thought that chaleel was the hebrew
> word for flute. would piccolo be fleytl? flute and picc are my instruments.
> rachel
>
> elliott wrote:
>
> > a recorder is a chaleel.
> >
> > Dick Rosenberg wrote:
> >
> > > Itzik,
> > >
> > > ven men ruft a "recorder" a fleytl, vos ruft men a "piccolo". a piccolo?
> > >
> > > If one calls a recorder a "fleytl" (little flute), what does one call a
> > > piccolo. A "piccolo"?
> > >
> > > Dick
> > >
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From:  Itzik Gottesman [SMTP:itzik (at) mail(dot)utexas(dot)edu]
> > > >Sent:  Tuesday, March 21, 2000 12:08 PM
> > > >To:    World music from a Jewish slant
> > > >Subject:       Re: Need Yiddish Vocabulary for Music
> > > >
> > > >I would try "fleytl" (little flute) for recorder. Nokhem Stutchkov's
> > > >"oytser fun der yidisher shprakh" is a wonderful Thesaurus that should be
> > > >consulted. - ITzik
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >Department of Germanic Studies
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