hammer40
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Ok, I have heard it many ways, so this is directly from Aquila.
http://www.aquilacorde.com/images/aquila.mp3
http://www.aquilacorde.com/images/aquila.mp3
Now that everyone in the US is going to pronounce Aquila properly, let's perhaps move on to how to pronounce D'Addario. This is an old string company, also originally from Italy.
I have noticed that most US uke players pronounce it 'dee-ad-ario. In fact, it should be pronounced dad'dario. Oddly enough, most guitar players seem to pronounce it correctly.
Fortunately I pronounced D'Addario properly, but can you help me pronounce the name of that new brand of strings out of the U.K.?
I think its "luh-VEENG way-TEER" but I could be wrong.
Interesting stuff, Ken!Now that everyone in the US is going to pronounce Aquila properly, let's perhaps move on to how to pronounce D'Addario. This is an old string company, also originally from Italy.
I have noticed that most US uke players pronounce it 'dee-ad-ario. In fact, it should be pronounced dad'dario. Oddly enough, most guitar players seem to pronounce it correctly.
Here's how D'Addario says it's pronounced. No mp3 though.
http://www.daddario.com/daddariofaq.page?solutionid=37&sid=0876bc6b-07d0-4c20-b0b2-62a0b6106a12
Ah, were it just so simple as to pronounce a word as it is pronounced in its original language. But there are things called translation and transliteration. Lt's not get into the oo coo lay lay / you ku lay lee controversy over strings. Regional dialects also come into play. When you buy from someone in Ory gun or Ora gone, neither on of them sound like the French pronunciation...and it is a French word.
If you are going to pick and chose which words retain the original language sound, and which ones get adapted into another language, allow for others to do the same thing. These great white and now red strings are going to be one of those words.
As dear departed former Senator Paul Simon -- from Illinois, Land of Lincoln -- once wrote: "You can buy in any language, but you must sell in the language of the buyer."
If you're purchasing Aquila strings, you get to pronounce them any way you like. LOL