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On one of the sale post the other week, we had another epic ad calling a Hamer 'Hammer!' Someone posted that Kramer never gets called Krammer. Well, I just came across this (check at 35 seconds); 

 

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42 minutes ago, jwhitcomb3 said:

People are familiar with hammers, not so much with krammers. Or Hamers.

Back when she was in preschool, my oldest child called a photographic device a "krammer". Never quite caught on with the general public.

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5 hours ago, gtrdaddy said:

And that would be correct. DOD are the initials of the founder of the company David Oreste Di Francesco.

Didn't know that.  Thanks for the info.

4 hours ago, Hamersaur said:

A Long & McQuade had a nicely framed 8-1/2x11 photo of this guy hung on the wall front and center at the  designated Kramer guitar display space.

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"Hey Jerry, these guitars play like the butter I just shaved my face with."

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15 hours ago, gtrdaddy said:

They call them "MIXER" products.

The obvious. I know MXRs from childhood.

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20 hours ago, gtrdaddy said:

And that would be correct. DOD are the initials of the founder of the company David Oreste Di Francesco.

In DOD's defense, the FX65 Chorus pedal is a brilliant pedal. It's the only DOD effect I ever liked...

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21 hours ago, Hamersaur said:

A Long & McQuade had a nicely framed 8-1/2x11 photo of this guy hung on the wall front and center at the  designated Kramer guitar display space.

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DOD - Dude On Dope!

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So an MXR mixing pedal to some would be pronounced Mixer Mixer??

And someone with little lead solo time, a Kramer and very few songs in the set list would be:

Kramming in his Krammer solo on his Kramer?.............that sounds very NSFW.

 

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There are many mispronounced words in the musical lexicon:

UREI: often pronounced like a Russian first name it’s actually U.R.E.I. Short for United Recording Electronics Industries.

Steinberger Bass: pronounced George Steinbrenner Memorial Baseball Bat. ( It’s true it’s true I tell ya).

Mini-Moog: we never new which was right: long O as in Moo or short O as in Moe.

To make matters worse, I heard people use both in the same editorial: Bob Moog (Short O) and his Moog synth (long O).

Electronic Music Systems: EMS Synthi-AKS which we used to pronounce synthi-axe (wrong.

Pronounced Synthi-A KS (Synthi-A model with keyboard sequencer).

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I may still have one of those D-O-D choruses around here someplace.  Their delay and modulation stuff was pretty good for the times, I thought.  Having said that, the DOD pedal that we sold the most by a country mile was the FX55 distortion.  Standard piece of student kit.

 

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