pianist vs. piano player

[Peter A. McGraw]

--On Thursday, February 7, 2002 1:30 PM +0000 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

>
> A fiddle and a violin are not the same instrument.

They are to classical violinists, who call their instrument a fiddle (or at
least did some years ago).  Similarly clarinettists (and I assume also
trumpet players) call their instrument a "horn."  OTOH, I don't think
concert violinists call themselves "fiddlers," and I'm sure clarinettists
don't call themselves "*hornists."


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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu