'OT Drynacking'

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OT Drynacking - Adrian Drover, 24 Oct 01:26PM
     Re: OT Drynacking - Mike Lyons, 24 Oct 07:37PM
         Re: OT Drynacking - Adrian Drover, 25 Oct 10:17AM
             Re: OT Drynacking - Mike Lyons, 25 Oct 03:22PM
                 Re: OT Drynacking - James, 25 Oct 06:57PM
                     Re: OT Drynacking - monsterjazzlicks, 27 Oct 12:32AM
                         Re: OT Drynacking - Adrian Drover, 27 Oct 06:43AM
                             Re: OT Drynacking - Mike Lyons, 27 Oct 07:17AM
                                 Re: OT Drynacking - Adrian Drover, 27 Oct 09:24AM
                                 Re: OT Drynacking - monsterjazzlicks, 27 Oct 10:42PM
                                     Re: OT Drynacking - monsterjazzlicks, 27 Oct 10:45PM
                                         Re: OT Drynacking - James, 28 Oct 04:28PM

OT Drynacking
Posted by Adrian Drover - 24 Oct 01:26PM
I have been asked how the word "drynacking" (or dry knacking?) originated. I know that my father often used it in connection with hand copying of music. From googling, I find that it is (or was) indeed a term used in army music preparation. Can anyone please elaborate on why it is so called?
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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by Mike Lyons - 24 Oct 07:37PM (edited 25 Oct 06:10AM)
Maybe it's from the same vocabulary as "bulling rings" (although I first heard this as "booling rings" as I was at Dreghorn Barracks at the time!)

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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by Adrian Drover - 25 Oct 10:17AM (edited 25 Oct 10:27AM)
The only reference I can find to Booling rings has to do with boolean algebra. I guess the term drynacking (regarding music copying by hand) has definitely disappeared from army music history and unworthy of an explanation. At my military boarding school, "bulling" meant polishing brass buttons, badges and boot leather until you could see your face in them, then looking forward to punishment when they failed inspection, which in my case, they always did.
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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by Mike Lyons - 25 Oct 03:22PM
It was to do with polishing my boots and my brogues to a better than glassy finish!

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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by James - 25 Oct 06:57PM
I never heard the term before. Naturally my mind goes to "dry knickers."

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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by monsterjazzlicks - 27 Oct 12:32AM (edited 27 Oct 12:33AM)
Hi,

I have always wondered where the term GIG originated from. After many years of consideration I came up with two possibilities:

JIG (as in to dance), which gradually evolved into the pronunciation 'gig'.

ENGAGEMENT (ie. a booking or contract), which gradually evolved into the appreciably abbreviated term 'gig'.

Your thoughts please . . .

Cheers

Paul
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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by Adrian Drover - 27 Oct 06:43AM (edited 27 Oct 07:06AM)
I think it probably originated in New Orleans, or central states of Louisiana. French for jig is gigue. As I grew up in the music world, gig always meant engagement or work. Musicians used to meet in Archer street, London every Monday to pick up gigs and discuss business. Nowadays, punters have hijacked the word, transforming it back to its original meaning of place to go to see a band, rather than place to go to work in one. And musicians now use the word gig to mean anything that needs to be done.
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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by Mike Lyons - 27 Oct 07:17AM
Isn't the English language a wonderful thing!

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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by Adrian Drover - 27 Oct 09:24AM
Yeah.
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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by monsterjazzlicks - 27 Oct 10:42PM (edited 28 Oct 12:58AM)
> Isn't the English language a wonderful thing!

Mike,

One cannot help but wonder what William Wordsworth would have thought of such a malarkey?

(sorry for the mass alliteration! - 'w'.)

Paul
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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by monsterjazzlicks - 27 Oct 10:45PM
> I think it probably originated in New Orleans, or central states of Louisiana. French for jig is gigue.

Ade,

Oh yeah, of course, the deep-South; and of course French was widely spoken there (I totally forgot about "gigue").

Paul
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Re: OT Drynacking
Posted by James - 28 Oct 04:28PM (edited 28 Oct 04:30PM)
It's better to gig than to receive.

And it's even better to giggle.

Of course, with my jokes, maybe the word "gag" comes to mind?


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OT Drynacking - Adrian Drover, 24 Oct 01:26PM
     Re: OT Drynacking - Mike Lyons, 24 Oct 07:37PM
         Re: OT Drynacking - Adrian Drover, 25 Oct 10:17AM
             Re: OT Drynacking - Mike Lyons, 25 Oct 03:22PM
                 Re: OT Drynacking - James, 25 Oct 06:57PM
                     Re: OT Drynacking - monsterjazzlicks, 27 Oct 12:32AM
                         Re: OT Drynacking - Adrian Drover, 27 Oct 06:43AM
                             Re: OT Drynacking - Mike Lyons, 27 Oct 07:17AM
                                 Re: OT Drynacking - Adrian Drover, 27 Oct 09:24AM
                                 Re: OT Drynacking - monsterjazzlicks, 27 Oct 10:42PM
                                     Re: OT Drynacking - monsterjazzlicks, 27 Oct 10:45PM
                                         Re: OT Drynacking - James, 28 Oct 04:28PM