"As endorsements go, this one was a full octave below low-key. It was like the lowest note you can play on an oud -- it was almost imperceptible to the human ear."
-Rachel Maddow on Rick Santorum's weak endorsement of Mitt Romney, 5/8/2012
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Oh yes, NOW I understand. Perfectly....
Rachel Maddow for the next Doctor!
Except according to my folk musician (and Maddow fan) friend, the oud actually isn't that low -- its tuning is generally in the same range as a guitar.
Yeah, I'll have to ask her about that. I found an online oud tuner and couldn't make it play any exceptionally low notes.
So maybe the analogy should have been about subsonic elephant calls, but the mental imagery of low notes on ouds (or oods, or whatever), was priceless!
The oud sounds in the bass clef, but the music is written for it in the treble clef. The lowest string, a D in Turkish tuning, isn't terribly low - not like the extra bass octave on a Bosendorfer piano.
Pardon me if this got posted twice, gremlins ate it the first time around. I'm just geeked Rachel knows what an "oud" is.
I heard it as Moog, but I have to assume that Will knows best.
I was thinking of Mourdock and Morlock. You know those creature from H.G. Wells Time Machine. Humans that evolved in total darkness so that they're all deformed albinos.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3002571008/tt0268695
My first draft had Mordor, a morlock and a mylock, but that felt a little overboard. :)
Morlocks are SCARY! Eloi are scary too!
What is it called when two words are combined into the precise meaning that is required?
Aha! Portmanteau. Bless the Google (erm, bless the Wikipedia?)
Mordor and Morlock and let's add burdock for good measure (a thistle).
And dour.
This guy is shaping up to be a Mr. Portmanteau, just as surely as there is a Mrs. Malaprop!
Hysterically funny!!!
I love that you guys are as nerdy as I am. Or is it geeky? Whatevs, Love it.
marvelous
What a relief! I was terribly panicked that Rick Santorum (or santorum in general) had penetrated the fine purity of the beautiful and sublime Ood-song.
Clearly that would be a circle that must be broken.
[insert "brown-note" joke here]
Well, I'm so glad that I now know the difference. Plus, awesome sauce. :)
Don't forget murlocs, the obnoxious noise-makers in World of Warcraft.