Richard, vleugel = wing = Flügel (not flugel) Dutch / English / German / French / Spanish vleugel = grand = Flügel = piano a queue = piano de cola staart = tail = ......... = queue = cola Dutch / English / German piano = upright = Klavier klavier = keyboard = Tastatur Klavier comes from the Latin word "Clavis" wich means key, in Dutch "toets", in German "Taste" . The key you put in a lock we call a "sleutel" and the German use the word "Schlüssel" And also very important: If you translate " MOODY " into Dutch, you get "ontstemd" wich also means "out of tune". Vriendelijke groeten, Michiel van Loon Meppel Nederland mvanloon@xs4all.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~mvanloon tel/fax ++31 522 255160 'Hunting only will become a sport when the animals are allowed to return fire' >Michael, > What does "vleugel" mean in Dutch. ? In Deutsch "flugel means >"wing" > >Richard F Moody (the F means flying on this one) > >---------- >> Upright = piano >> grand = vleugel >> digital piano = "digitale piano" or "electrische piano" or >"keyboard". >> >> Michiel van Loon >> Nederland >> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: Jim Coleman, Sr. <pianotoo@IMAP2.ASU.EDU> >> Aan: Tom Cole <tcole@cruzio.com> >> CC: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> >> Datum: zaterdag 14 februari 1998 19:49 >> Onderwerp: Re: acoustic? ACOUSTIC??? >> >> >> >Hi Tom: >> > >> >In regard to the "acoustic" piano debate, I must add that the word >piano >> >has an entirely different meaning to people in Germany and other >European >> >countries. They use the word piano to designate "vertical piano" >whereas >> >when they are talking about Grand pianos they call it a wing >(flugel) which >> >comes from the fact that the lid raises like a bird wing. So, in a
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