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Re: Klingon WOTD: qeb (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: qeb (v)
• Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:37:51 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, October 21, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   qeb
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     squeeze (windbag instrument)

"A third category of Klingon instrument is the {SuSDeq}, the "windbag" or 
"bellows" type. A {SuSDeq} has a flexible bag, usually made of animal skin, 
which is alternately filled with and emptied of air. This air passes over 
strips of various materials ({joQmey}), which vibrate as the air goes by, 
producing the musical tones. For one form of {SusDeq}, the {may'ron}, the 
player stretches the bag out to fill it with air and squeezes it together 
to empty it while directing the flow of air by pressing buttons mounted on 
boards on either end of the bag, much like an accordion. To finger the 
{may'ron}--that is, to push the buttons--is to {Heng}, the same word 
applied to the {meSchuS}. To alternately squeeze and stretch out the bag 
part of the {may'ron} is to {rey}. Another type of {SuSDeq}, the {DIron}, 
resembles and is played much like bagpipes. The verb that means "squeeze 
the bag part of the {DIron}," usually with the elbow, is {qeb}." [KGT 75-76]




-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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