Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Musical jargon decoded

• A Flat - Cheap accomodation Goans in Mumbai look for.
• A Minor - Statutory rape. You know what I'm talking about.
• Alto - A singer who's afraid of heights / A Maruti car.
• B Flat – What a bee becomes after an elephant walks over it.
• Bach - The sound a dog makes.
• Bar - Place to buy a drink
• Baroque - Penniless Blue
• Note - Rs10 bill
• Cello – A pen
• Chopin - What you have to do with firewood/mutton
• Chorale - Place where horses hang out
• Chords - Little bits of string or rope
• Clarinet - Mr Net's daughter Clari
• Conductor – A qualified bus cleaner waving a stick at the orchestra
• Semi-conductor – A not-so-qualified bus cleaner doing the same…
• Crotchet - A type of needlework
• Cymbals - Little pictures that mean things
• Da Capo - A type of coffee
• Diatonic - A low fat drink
• Double bass – Johnny Cash’s voice.
• Fret - To get upset
• Guitar – The holy book of the hindus
• Bass Guitar - Holy book for only-just-Hindus
• Handel – What you pull to open the door.
• Lute - What Goan politicians are after.
• Lyre - George Bush.
• Major Key - A commander in the Chinese army
• Measure - Amount of alcohol Midi - A small glass of beer
• Mozart - Mosquito's paintings
• Opera - An American Talk Show Host
• Pitch - The black stuff they put on roads
• Quaver – What you get at the thought of listening to Himesh.
• Scale – What Edmund Hillary did to Mt Everest.
• Sharp - Pointy
• Sonata - Frank. . .'My way''
• Staff - A big stick
• Symphony - To feel sad for someone
• Triad – Brahma, Krishna, Indra
• Trombone - Attached to the thigh bone
• Trumpet – A rummy version of checkmate

2 comments:

Joanna said...

Hey, hilarious definitions. I am proud to know you do have brains, a fact you tend to keep hidden!!
I loved the A minor, lute, lyre and quaver definitions.
How about doing one on journalism jargon??...that is not supposed to be used in newspapers but is found in abundance.

Nigel Britto said...

What journalism jargon? I haven't heard any! Maybe it's only prevalent at DNA :P