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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> I strikes me as a parody/mockery of the word Double Bass...seeing as there
is
> actually nothing "double" about the bass, why not have a "triple"
> instrument. Of course there is a Chekov short story (or perhaps a play?)
> about a double bass player (the name is lost to me, but it's something
like
> "Love Affair with a Double Bass" - I sound like an idiot...but know the
work
> I'm talking about) so perhaps it has something to do with that?
> Dane
>
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: Triple viol
> >Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:23:02 -0700
> >
> >EDNOTE. My assumption is that it refers, as you suggest, to the triplets
> >she is carrying. Other ideas?
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> >From: Yannickec@aol.com
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:52 AM
> >Subject: Triple viol
> >
> >
> >'His wife's lover played the triple viol'. (Ada, II, 5, p 301).
> >
> >Does anyone have a suggestion for what Lucette means by "triple viol"?
Ada,
> >II, 5 (p301 in Penguin Ed).
> >The viol is probably here the short name for the viola da gamba? in that
> >family, there can be a "double bass", which is a bigger bass viol. But
what
> >is a triple viol? Is it a pun with the "driblets" that comes before? Can
> >somebody explain?
> >
> >thank you,
> >
> >yannicke chupin
> >
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (42
lines) ------------------
> I strikes me as a parody/mockery of the word Double Bass...seeing as there
is
> actually nothing "double" about the bass, why not have a "triple"
> instrument. Of course there is a Chekov short story (or perhaps a play?)
> about a double bass player (the name is lost to me, but it's something
like
> "Love Affair with a Double Bass" - I sound like an idiot...but know the
work
> I'm talking about) so perhaps it has something to do with that?
> Dane
>
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: Triple viol
> >Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:23:02 -0700
> >
> >EDNOTE. My assumption is that it refers, as you suggest, to the triplets
> >she is carrying. Other ideas?
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Yannickec@aol.com
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:52 AM
> >Subject: Triple viol
> >
> >
> >'His wife's lover played the triple viol'. (Ada, II, 5, p 301).
> >
> >Does anyone have a suggestion for what Lucette means by "triple viol"?
Ada,
> >II, 5 (p301 in Penguin Ed).
> >The viol is probably here the short name for the viola da gamba? in that
> >family, there can be a "double bass", which is a bigger bass viol. But
what
> >is a triple viol? Is it a pun with the "driblets" that comes before? Can
> >somebody explain?
> >
> >thank you,
> >
> >yannicke chupin
> >
>
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