Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Translation question(02)

[D. M. M. <mic...@ro...>]

On Saturday 16 January 2010, Vladimir Savic wrote:

> > Wind electrophones         =     valiation of electrophone?

It's some technical music theory name for "electronic wind instruments" more 
or less.  Like electronic trumpets and saxophones that transmit MIDI messages, 
but you blow into them to play them.

> > Wind synthesizer           =     ???

A generic name for either of the above.  If you don't know the technical music 
theory names for all the instrument categorizations, you can probably just use 
the same translation for this as for the one above.

> > Mellophonium               =     Same as "Mellophone"? (From wikipedia)
> 
> Yes, to my knowledge

I think they were actually different in some obscure way, but it doesn't 
really matter.  They're both kinds of French horn that are designed for 
marching band use.
 
> > Orff soprano glockenspiel  =     What is "Orff"?
 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Orff
> I'm almost certain that it's part of his educational inventory.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Orff#Pedagogical_work . I've played on
> myself in early childhood.

Yeah, just translate "soprano glockenspiel" and leave "Orff" alone is probably 
good enough, unless you want to transliterate it to another alphabet instead 
of using Romanji.
 
> > Cello steel drums	   =     ???

Steel drums turn out to be complicated that way.  If you research "steel pan" 
bands, you can find out about how they have "guitar" and "cello" and other 
stringed instrument names applied to various drums that sound in particular 
registers.  If in doubt, feel free to leave all of this in English.

> > Dulcimer                   =     which
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulcimer)?
> 
> 99,9% sure author meant on
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammered_dulcimer since it's being used in
> most parts of Europe

Agreed.  That's how I translated it.

These instrument names were really hard to translate.  I'm surprised you 
didn't have to ask about "descant pommer" and a lot of that stuff too.  Very 
obscure.  Wikipedia was very helpful to me on this.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre