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>TIL about the CNC song If you want to see it performed on-stage in all its glory, including live orchestra.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if60FlQ2FEo htt
by traceroute66 4y ago
>TIL about the CNC song
If you want to see it performed on-stage in all its glory, including live orchestra....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if60FlQ2FEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if60FlQ2FEo
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoGotta love NK bands subjecting themselves to cultural imperialism by playing western instruments.
- sneak 4y agoRoland is a Japanese company.
- autoexec 4y agoI never would have guessed that! Props to them for going with a name many Japanese people would struggle to pronounce.
- sneak 4y agoFrom Wikipedia: > The "Roland" name was selected for export purposes, as Kakehashi was interested in a name that was easy to pronounce for his worldwide target markets. The name was found in a telephone directory, and Kakehashi was satisfied with the simple two-syllable word and its soft consonants. The letter "R" was chosen because it was not used by many other music equipment companies, so would stand out in trade-show directories and industry listings. Kakehashi did not learn of the French epic poem The Song of Roland until later.
- SeanLuke 4y ago"Sony" has an interesting history as well. The official line is that it was a mixture of "sonus" and "sonny" boys (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony). But I have it on good authority from people in the know in the company that the real reason for the name Sony was that it sounded like an American company name to Japanese ears. America was cool. That is, namewise Sony was the Japanese equivalent of Haagen-Dazs. It's even written in Katakana, the script for foreign words.
- komali2 4y agoWhat's difficult to pronounce about ローランド for a native speaker?
- swexbe 4y agoRourando
- skhr0680 4y agoObviously it’s the English pronounciation that is difficult for them. See also how Japanese try to avoid saying “reflex” in relation to cameras: An SLR is an 一眼レフ Single Lens Ref and Nikon’s camera with a reFlex mirror is the Nikon “F”. Mirrorless seems to have fared better, but I have seen shops selling them as 一眼カメラ, Single Lens Cameras.
- ben7799 4y agoNK doesn't exactly like Japan.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoGotta love westerners gatekeeping things they consider "theirs".
- noizejoy 4y agoAt the 25 second mark: isn’t that one of the high end Roland electronic drum kits?
- wolfd 4y agoI find it interesting that they haven't rebranded "CNC" as something in Korean.