Kind of a longshot question here, and I’m not at all certain that such a word exists. I’m looking for something in the vein of “culinary” - of or related to cooking.
Luthierial gets a few google results, but mostly in relation to guitar-making, not guitar-playing. Any word whizzes or google hotshots who can help me out here?
How about guitaristic?
Instrumental?
I don’t think one exists, at least not in any established usage. ‘Pianistic’ is certainly a valid adjective, and I would say ‘violinistic’ is to an extent also acceptable.
The latter does actually get fewer Google hits than ‘guitaristic’, but the top results for ‘violinistic’ are it being used in the manner in question. ‘Guitaristic’ is dominated by a compilation album of some Belgian jazz player.
Also, there’s no other adjectives that I can think of constructed in such a way - ‘cellistic’ manages a thousand hits, and ‘clarinetistic’ a paltry thirty-one. (‘Harpistic’ gets a surprising amount, but ‘harpistic -elegance’ eliminates a well-promonted North Carolina wedding musician.)
Just out of curiosity, is there any reason you have to communicate this in a single word, and not a slightly longer phrase? Or is it just idle curiosity on your part?
Good point - what is the context? I suspect it’s a situation where you could talk about ‘idiomatic guitar writing’, for example. Or if you’re already talking about a guitarist or a piece written for guitar, mentioning ‘particularly idiomatic phrases’ is acceptable.
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(works for me.)
I like guitaric, because it’s less cumbersome than guitaristic but still gets the meaning across.
It’s really not necessary at all. I just wanted to use it for parallelism’s sake.
The original conversational context was something like “My guitaristic skills almost make up for my complete lack of culinary talent.”
I just said “My guitar skills,” but it sounded a little awkward, so I was wondering if there was a better way to say it. Consensus seems to be that there isn’t anything thats much less awkward.
there’s nothing awkward about “my guitar skills”. You don’t need an adjective here—a noun works fine. You can talk about someones “basketball skills” without sounding awkard, right? Or “business skills” (though the usual cliche is"his business acumen"). Or praise a person for his “computer skills” , or “management skills”, or “childrearing skills”, or whatever noun you want.
Instead of “culinary talent” you can say “my kitchen skills” , too.
Or rephrase it as “my talent on the guitar makes up for my lack of talent in the kitchen”
How about “six-stringing”?
No? Well, I tried.
Fair enough. The awkwardness was derived from the lack of parallelism in using a noun to describe the first set of skills and an adjective to describe the second one. It’s not very awkward at all, I know, but I noticed it because I’m just an odd duck. And you are correct that there are other ways to make it parallel. If I were writing, I’m sure I would use one of those. I just was in the middle of conversation without thinking too far ahead about the structure of my sentence, and it came happened, so it got me wondering.
Natch. Napoleon Dynamite ruined the whole skills thing as a positive for all of us.
I cannot get the term “axish” out of my head, nor the term “axerific” in regards to the playing of a guitar. Axcentric? Axical? Twangtastic??
But seriously, IMHO, the term culinary is used to communicate an all-encompassing adjective for all sorts of food preparation while a guitar itself is a specific subset of a larger group of stringed instruments. I think the word you are looking to find or invent would be higher up the hierarchy.
Axinine.
Lutular
axial?
Good suggestion. I just hope nobody proposes “luteal”.
I would say “guitaring” or “guitar playing” skills/talent.
Yeah, what’s wrong with “guitar-playing”? Culinary is a just a fancy way of saying cooking. One cooks and one plays guitar. Cooking skills and guitar-playing skills.
Nothing wrong with it, of course. I was just wondering if such a word exists, and it doesn’t appear to.