<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 at 09:06, Rhona Fenwick <<a href="mailto:qeslagh@hotmail.com">qeslagh@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt">(Tangentially, I'd always been struck by the resemblance of the musical instrument
<b>chuS'ugh</b> to Chusuk, the so-called "Music Planet" in Frank Herbert's <i>Dune</i></span><span style="font-size:12pt">. It seems to be little more than a striking coincidence, though; the
</span><b style="font-size:12pt">chuS'ugh</b><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">appears to have been coined by Howard Weinstein for the TNG novel
<i>Power Hungry</i> in '89, probably from <b>chuS</b> + <b>'ugh</b>, and retrospectively canonised in the TKD Addendum. FWIW, in
<i>Power Hungry</i> the <b>chuS'ugh</b> is described as a four-stringed instrument, pear-shaped, about two feet high, and played with a bow while it rests on the knee.
Perhaps the cello is the nearest European classical equivalent.)</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The "Star Trek Fact Files" magazine no. 89 claims the following:<br></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/stream/StarTrekFactFilesNo89/Star%20Trek%20Fact%20Files%20No%2089_djvu.txt">https://archive.org/stream/StarTrekFactFilesNo89/Star%20Trek%20Fact%20Files%20No%2089_djvu.txt</a><br></div><div><div>"Klingon opera is often accompanied by the bagpipe-like musical instrument known as a chuS'ugh."</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>So... a bagpipe which is played with a bow? Interesting.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>