Saturday, December 15, 2012

It's The Time of The Season . . .



Ben and his roommate Andrew took Michael's request to sing this song (along with forks and cello) and take it to the tubes! Last week they graced the cyberwaves with this:

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4 comments:

Joe Carlson said...

Why do they call it "flatware" when none of it is "flat?"
Years ago a new-to-the-family sister-in-law played a pair of spoons to accompany my cousin Leslie as she sang and played guitar for a new song she had written. The spoons stole the show! How does a musicologist address this topic: when to use forks, when to use spoons? teaspoons or tablespoons? dinner forks or salad forks?

16/12/12 12:07 PM
Joe Carlson said...

Why do they call it "flatware" when none of it is "flat?"
Years ago a new-to-the-family sister-in-law played a pair of spoons to accompany my cousin Leslie as she sang and played guitar for a new song she had written. The spoons stole the show! How does a musicologist address this topic: when to use forks, when to use spoons? teaspoons or tablespoons? dinner forks or salad forks?

16/12/12 12:08 PM
Elaine Fine said...

I'll have to take up these questions with Andrew!

16/12/12 12:48 PM
Elaine Fine said...

I just found out that "flatware," in addition to being the word to describe forks and knives, and I suppose spoons, also describes plates and other things in a table setting that are fairly flat. This is to contrast holloware refers to hollow things like bowls and pitchers.

16/12/12 2:19 PM

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