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[Swatopluk]

Btw, did you notice the similarity in sound of the old Schalmei and a typical bagpipe?

Here is a nice piece played on Krummhorns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFePC4vBWh0

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I have a fair amount of medieval and renaissance music including instrumental consorts and I'm certainly familiar with the color.

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[Swatopluk]

But many are not.

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

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[Swatopluk]

At least there is Mozart chocolate.
More disturbing even is the result of polls that only about a third of Germans have heard of Frederick the Great given that this year there are great activities because he was born 300 years ago (and don't even ask about Prussia). Well, around 1900 a lot of Germans did not know who Bismarck was either (except that he had something to do with herring) and about 10% of military recruits did not know the emperor's name.

Btw, personnel in shops that sell recordings of classical music have to be aware (or have a list) about what classical music is used in which advertisement. So they know that when e.g. someone asks for the Nestlé music they have to look under O (Orff, Carl; Carmina Burana).

Admittedly as a schoolkid I thought for some time that Bach was also an inventor because I took the Wohltemperierte Klavier for a special piano with water cooling

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

There is a sketch by the Argentinian group Les Luthiers in which a string quartet is invited to a game show as a last minute replacement for a group of tropical music. Then the game master accepts calls to guess the title of the 'song' with hilarious results. On one case a lady mentions Vivaldi and the game master confuses it with a kind of pasta.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUmm_W7SmM

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[Swatopluk]

I don't speak Dago

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Dago? Is that the equivalent of spik in Germany?

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[Swatopluk]

I know that in the Napoleonic age, the English referred to the Spanish as dagos (and to the French as frog(eater)s).

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfkA0LOdx5o

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

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[Griffin NoName]

I know that in the Napoleonic age, the English referred to the Spanish as dagos (and to the French as frog(eater)s).

Yes, it is perjorative.

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Unless we're compared to him:

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/9596/419089-300px_d_argo_large.jpg

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[Swatopluk]

I know that in the Napoleonic age, the English referred to the Spanish as dagos (and to the French as frog(eater)s).

Yes, it is perjorative.

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I think that was not in doubt

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Dago is the short version/nickname for Dagoberto (a variant of the German Dagobert), a somewhat uncommon name.

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[Swatopluk]

In Germany Onkel Dagobert is the name of Scrooge McDuck


http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw/images/comics/fullsize/de_50dagobert.jpg

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