It’s german, and it’s something related to music, but what exactly is that?
Could you give a bit more of context (is it an instrument? A notation sign? Playing directions?)? Flügel can mean a wing or a feather or fin, etc. (i.e. lots of things), but also means a grand piano, while Schäube is an old Austrian word for something like a sheaf of wheat or a faches. . .
confused
It couldnt be yiddish or any other language similar to German, right?
Damn… this is my native language… I should at least have heared that word…
I ll ask the dicitonary…
dodgy
it is in none of my dictionaries…
flügel usually means wing - but related to music it means piano
maybe that helps…
dodgy again
There is a trumpet-like instrument called a “flugelhorn.” Could this have something to do with it?
you know… this thread will ruin my day…
I ll go to the movies in half an hour and I know I ll think about this strange word during the entire film…
Schäube is Austrian-German (if we call it that…)?!
I am from Austria… how illiterate am I the fuck?!
argh…
whines around
flügel schäube… schraube… haube… horn… bong…
I have no idea what a Schauebe is, but a Fluegel is either a wing or a grand piano. Are you sure the spelling is right on that?
Does “flugel” mean a piano-the instrument-piano, or “piano” as in “soft” ?
I always assumed “flugelhorn” meant a “soft horn”…soft in comparison to the brighter-toned trumpet, which is usually the jazz-playing flugelhornist’s first instrument.
Are you sure you got the spelling right? Flügelschraube means “wing nut”. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that in music, it might refer to the screws used to adjust the string tension on a guitar or similar instrument (are they called tuning pegs?).
Flügelschraube makes sense to me…
Flügel means piano as in the instrument.
dodgy
From my handy Englisch-Deutsch Wörterbuch:
Flügel wing (zool, mil); (Windmühle) arm, sail; mil a. flank; grand (piano) • d. ~ hängen lassen to hang down one’s head; ~fenster casement window; ~lahm with crippled wings; fig despondent; ~mutter wing-nut; ~roß winged horse, Pegasus; ~schlag beat of wings; ~schraube thumb-screw; ~spanne spread of wings; ~tür folding door
So, to answer the OP:
Flügelschraube = thumb-screw
To answer Ukulele Ike:
Flügel probably came to mean piano because a grand piano looks like it has wings? (WAG)
bibliophage, I just saw your post (I was busy wrestling with italics and bolds).
My dictionary uses flügelmutter for wing-nut.
{blinks}
Ol’ pal, you really should get away from the computer more often. Go outside and get some fresh air and exercise and look at pianos. Oh, hell, here’s a piano:
http://www.steinway.com/html/showroom/tricentennial_main.html
All right, show me these “wings” of yours.
While you’re looking, I’ll be here tearing my hair out wondering why they named a trumpetlike brass instrument with a conical bore a “piano horn.”
I could’ve sworn this was in the Animaniacs’ Schnitzelbank:
[ul]Ist das nicht ein flugelschaub?
Ja, das ist ein flugelschaub.[/ul]
But alas, it was not.
Makes sense.
OK Ukulele Ike I expressed myself very poorly. Let’s try this approach: if the lid of a grand piano were shut, and you looked at it from the top, couldn’t someone with imagination say it’s shaped like a wing?
Not because it looks like a bird’s wing, but “wing” in the same sense that a triptych altarpiece with movable “wings” (i.e. doors, sort of) is a Flugelaltar. Big flap with hinges kind of generic wing.
I agree with Arnold; the grand piano (not a spinet) is called flügel because it looks like a wing shape seen from above.
The flügelhorn got its name from being used like a bugle in the military. The “wing” (flügel) referring to the flank of the formation, where the horn blowers blew their horns.