tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 02 13:29:05 2008
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Re: Klingon WOTD: meSchuS (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, December 30, 2007.
>
>Klingon word: meSchuS
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: large wind instrument
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 75. Wind instruments (there is no overall term for them) range
>from the simple flute or fife ({Dov'agh}), generally crafted from a bone,
>to the highly complex {meSchuS}. This is a very large instrument, not at
>all easily moved from place to place, which consists of a network of
>interlocking tubes. One tube terminates in the mouthpiece ({ngujlep})
>into which the player blows ({SuS}). The instrument's pitch and timbre
>are modified by fingering strategically placed holes in the tubing and by
>moving the hands in various ways (to move the fingers in this way is to
>{Heng}). The sound emitted by the {meSchuS} most resembles that of large
>pipe organs, but that characterization is not really flattering to either
>instrument.
Additional additional notes:
KGT p.76: To finger the {may'ron}--that is, to push the buttons--is to
{Heng}, the same word applied to the {meSchuS}.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons