Pronunciation of KNABE?

[Jean-Jacques Granas]

Hello there,

It is strange that no one seems to have mentioned it (maybe I missed it...),
but the word Knabe is a German word meaning "boy". Ttherefore, the way it is
pronounced (and by "it is" I don't mean that it's Holy Writ) derives from
the German pronounciation which, at least in this particular case, seems
like something we can manage. That explains why the "K" is pronounced, and
also why the final "E" is made to sound like "UH" or "EH"-like. That's how I
always heard it pronounced (on the east coast at least).

Hope this contributes something worthwhile to the discussion.

Jean-Jacques Granas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of KNABE?


> THAT is my question - why is the "K" pronounced?
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phillip Ford" <fordpiano@earthlink.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Pronunciation of KNABE?
>
>
> >
> > At 07:14 AM 1/15/2004, you wrote:
> > >We say KUH-NAH-BEE, but I've heard the German pronuciation as
> KUH-NAH-BUH.
> > >What does everyone here say?
> > >
> > >John Minor
> > >University of Illinois
> >
> > These derned foreigners.  Why don't they change their names to something
> we
> > Amuricans can pronounce?  Knabe ist ein deutsches Wort for boy or lad.
> Why
> > didn't he change his name to Mr. Lad or Mr. Boy or something?
> >
> > Anyway, since he didn't, and since the pianos were made in Baltimore,
I'd
> > say that makes it an American name by default, so why are we worrying
> about
> > how they pronounce it in some other god forsaken country.  So, this
makes
> the
> > K silent and the e on the end an indication that the a ought to be long.
> So it should be
> > pronounced NAYB (rhymes with ABE, as in Lincoln - a real Amurican, gosh
> > darn it, with a name everyone can pronounce).
> >
> > anon.
> >
> >
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