<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: demi-queue</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"> About the semi-queue:</font></blockquote> <div><br> I thought it was demi-queue.  Are the terms interchangeable?<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"> </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">2 metres would be about 6.562 feet (about 6 feet 6 1/2 inches).</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Right you are.  I shouldn't make it sound smaller than it is.  A respectable size.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">As far as some other interesting terms/expressions are concerned:</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">- 'n'est pas une parole en l'air' means 'not words spoken lightly';</font></blockquote> <div><br> Thanks.<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">- 'monobloc' is a term which usually indicates that something is made in one piece, as opposed to assembled elements;</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>So I had assumed.  But one piece of what?  A solid 5' x 5' block of maple?  Several pieces of 5' x 5' Baltic birch plywood stacked and glued and then cut out?</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Another interesting term, from Stephane Collin's post, is the term 'crapaud' which translates literally as 'toad'.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>I have heard some small grands referred to in English by a similar term.  A four letter word starting with t and ending with d, but with a couple of different letters in between.  The word crapaud calls it to mind.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Phil Ford<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">That's what the French call the baby grand, though I am surprised they include instruments as long as 1.80 in the toad category. I didn't realize that.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Gee, I thought my 1905, 6 foot 3 Bluthner is a semi-grand ... It is barely a bloated toad ... Horrors !!!</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"> </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Cheers</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"> </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">jj</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"> </font></blockquote> <div><br></div> </body> </html>