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[US] Music Library Association Notes Dec. 41: Combo: abbrev. of ‘combination.’ Refers generally to an instrumental group usually smaller than a band.
at combo, n.2
[US] Music Library Association Notes Dec. 43: eighty-eighter: popular muscian’s term for pianist.
at eighty-eighter, n.
[US] Music Library Association Notes Dec. 46: longhair: one who plays, appreciates, composes, or writes about concert music.
at longhair, n.
[US] Music Library Association Notes Dec. 41: Addition of the suffix ville is a common verbal procedure among song-pluggers. Origin of the device is perhaps Storyville in New Orleans, the area in which jazz reputedly had its birth.
at -ville, sfx1
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