Jeremy Bender
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For the love of God, please don't add an R to make it sound like Jerful Noise.
Sonor is another good one. I've always said SO-NAR (like what they use on submarines), but have heard it pronounced more like SO-NUR. Problem is I've been saying some of these a certain way for so long that it's hard to change, lol
What about UFIP? I always sounded out the letters (you eff eye pee) because I knew they were an abbreviation . However, I watched a Greenbrier Percussion demo video the other day, and Mr. Whitesides said he was playing some "oooh fip" cymbals. Would someone like to weigh in on this one?
Asking how to pronounce 'Sakae' in another thread got me to thinking about some of the other drum company names. I'm sure there are other threads on this, but oh well, I didn't do a search, lol. I'll start with a few off the top of my head. Feel free to add others.
Taye - pronounced TIE
Tama- I've always said TOM-UH. But I've heard others say TAME-UH. What do you think?
Paiste- from studying German, I believe this to be pronounced PIE-STEE.
Ddrum - I've always said DEE-DRUM. Anyone heard it differently?
Sakae- ???
What other ones are there?
Here's the one that's going to cause a knock-down/drag-out:
How do you pronounce "djembe?"
Me?
duh-JEM-bay
That one is easy. It Bay-to like in Pay-stee.How do you pronounce Beato as in Beato bags?
I live in NC, so in the South, we tend to make up our own rules, so here are my personal pronunciations:
Native Spanish speakers have a similar trick to do. My favorite is how we say "Rogers" it becomes "Roy-ers".
Apparently it means "round and precious"
I live in NC, so in the South, we tend to make up our own rules, so here are my personal pronunciations:
That one is easy. It Bay-to like in Pay-stee.
(Beato / Paiste)
like in Pay-stee.(Paiste)
Only I just saw a video where a guy was named Beato and he pronounced it using 3 syllables. Be-a-to.
I always used 2 syllables, Beat-o