Model pronunciations

[8mileshigher]

Enjoyable thread ----- keep those humerous interpretations and one-liners coming !

[jimk]

What?!? You mean to tell me New Orleans doesn't rhyme with beans? Nuts.....now I gotta re-write that whole darned song.
JimK

[Folkie]

What?!? You mean to tell me New Orleans doesn't rhyme with beans? Nuts.....now I gotta re-write that whole darned song.
JimK

[rickenbrother]

What?!? You mean to tell me New Orleans doesn't rhyme with beans? Nuts.....now I gotta re-write that whole darned song.
JimK

Jim, that's okay. it wasn't until least year that I found out in Northern California that San Rafael rhymes with smell! There's a song lyric for ya!

[thor]

Pronouncing Rickenbacker "Rick-en-BOK-er" is like calling New Orleans "New-or-LEENS." Both of them tend to grate on the ear!

I hadn't heard anyone pronounce it Rick-en-BOK-er until last night whilst watching a rockumentry on Motorhead - Slash referred to Lemmy's bass as a Rickenbocker - had to laugh!

So what's a 4003 in the UK?

Expensive?

Hmm, ain't that the truth!

Crazy prices for a new 4003 - anything from around £1500 for a Mapleglo to £2100 for a Jetglo!

I had thought about importing one from the USA but with taxes & duty it worked out around about £150 saving - I thought I'd rather see the bass in the flesh before shelling out my cash.

[Rick]

Greetings from China ...

330 = san san shi = three thirty ... (although some say "san san ling" = three three zero)
360 = san leo shi = three sixty ... ("san leo ling" = three six zero)



Oh, and make sure you get the tone correct!

A few Chinese try to say the model numbers in English, especially when chatting with me (a blonde/blue foreigner).

[Kopfjaeger]

In Germany and Austria it's Drei und Viertausend or if you write it numerically 4003 unless your in a Turkish neighborhood, then it's called something completely different!!

Sepp

[jdogric12]

I am pretty sure that in the US most say "three twenty-five" and "four thousand three," but in the UK and Australia most say "three two five" and "four double-o three."

[electrofaro]

As a dutchie I've always read it as three-sixty, three-twentyfive, fourthousand-one etc. Now, the 4080, though is a forty-eighty imo

As for Sepp, who might not be from the turkish neighbourhood (good food there!), he's neither from the german side of town viertausend-drei is what I always heard them bassies talk about!

[iiipopes]

Pronouncing Rickenbacker "Rick-en-BOK-er" is like calling New Orleans "New-or-LEENS." Both of them tend to grate on the ear!

Yeah, but, "Do you know what it means," to miss either? Louis Armstrong does.

[thisismusicinc]

Met a girl from Switzerland once who pronunced it Rickenbacher. Right or not, it sounded very good

Usually I say "firetusen-og-en" eller "firetusen-og-tre". That's four thousand and one / three in norwegian.

[David Watts]

In France we say : trois cent trente = three hundred thirty.
And Rickenbacker is often pronounced bEcker instead of bAcker, i don't know why.
One must think that it sounds more american.

[Rickissippi]

I've always said "three-sixty" and "four-thousand-three;" however, I always felt a little less certain about the latter, perhaps because I'm not a bassist. Still, since we say "three-sixty," and not "three-hundred-sixty," it seemed possible to me to call a bass a "forty-oh-three."

[cjj]

Computer geeks pronounce 4003 as "ef-ay-three" (FA3)...

[CarlosPrex]

It depends on what time zone one lives in.

So true, a Three Thirty in California, is a model Six Thirty here in Ohio.And if you're looking for one in Chicago, ask to see a Five thirty.

Oh My!
...I guess that just when everybody is used to...Daylight Saving Time arrives