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Location: When?? | Curious.. is the "official" Ovation pronunciation LIE-ruh-cord.. or is it LEER-ruh-cord? I've heard both over the years. What say you?? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | "A rose by any other name......." "Toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe, let's call the whole thing off". "Frankly, my dear......." Do I have a predilection to lie or leer? Both have their attraction and rejection. I really have no certainty, but it does conjure conjecture. |
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Location: When?? | @seesquare - >>>"Toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe<<<
Oh, Lordy me.
Okay..so you retire from a career of doing brain work. Then you get bored and take on a fun job to pass the time. Tour guide at a dairy. A big, commercial dairy. But you don't speak during the tours. Instead you carry a guitar.. an Ovation.. and you sing the narration for tourists who come from thousands of miles just for that. A really big performing star in the milk world. Then, one day, a fella walks up after the tour and tells you how much he enjoyed it. Especially the song about yogurt. The conversation then turns to focus on your guitar. He's never seen an Ovation up close. From that point he continues to introduce himself as a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, there to study atomic lactose properties as a binding agent for a tennis racket company he plans to start soon.. and he asks you what the back of your guitar is made of. Specifically, the trademark name. Having said the word out loud numerous times over decades, and further wanting to appear as astute as possible to his field of expertise in hopes of landing a racket endorsement slot, you reply.. what??
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | "Sho mee thuh mun-nee." |
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Location: Utah | Lyric chord. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | At 3:07...
This is how it is pronounced in Texas!
https://youtu.be/HJicOHSy9JI
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Location: When?? | @seesquare - >>>"Sho mee thuh mun-nee."<<<
Touché. I should have known better than to try.
@MWoody - >>>Texas style<<<
At least we now know where Charlie went to hire his technicians.
@FlySig - >>>”Lyric Chord”<<<
As always, dependable for a common sense and pragmatic answer since it is, after all, a musical product.
@Love O Fair - >>>"LIE-ruh-cord"<<< But only because of household disinfectants, airplane engine manufacturers and sickness from tick bites.
So far Beal is the only one I would truly trust.. but he hasn’t said.
Edited by Love O Fair 2023-09-27 8:26 PM
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Location: Lake Forest, CA | Is Epiphone pronounced Eh-Pe-phone or epiphany? LOL! |
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Location: When?? | @Dan - >>>Eh-Pe-phone or epiphany?<<<
I've pondered that one, too. I suppose we could just call their main number and see how they answer. |
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