[jbovlaste] Re: accordion/concertina

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Lindar Greenwood scripsit:

> > I'd say yes.  I think what makes something a "pipno" is that it has
> > various notes/sounds triggered by batke, regardless of their shape
> > or arrangement.
> 
> I'll agree, but at the same time, http://vlasisku.lojban.org/xagri
> it is actually a reed instrument. Perhaps a lujvo is in order? 

We don't want to wind up calling a modern flute or clarinet a pipno, even
though it too is played with keys, to say nothing of the keyed valves of
a brass instrument.  I think the true mark of the pipno is not the keys
(despite what the gismu list says) but the _action_, the part that allows
finger movements to _indirectly_ cause the sound-producing elements to
be actuated.  This distinguishes the piano, the organ, the harpsichord,
and the accordion from the hammer dulcimer, the recorder, the guitar,
and the harmonica respectively.

While we are at it, two-term lujvo for single-reed (e.g. clarinet),
double-reed (e.g. oboe) and free-reed (e.g. harmonica) instruments
would be a good thing to have.

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John Cowan                                cowan@ccil.org
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