On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 at 09:06, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh@hotmail.com> wrote:
(Tangentially, I'd always been struck by the resemblance of the musical instrument *chuS'ugh* to Chusuk, the so-called "Music Planet" in Frank Herbert's *Dune*. It seems to be little more than a striking coincidence, though; the *chuS'ugh* appears to have been coined by Howard Weinstein for the TNG novel *Power Hungry* in '89, probably from *chuS* + *'ugh*, and retrospectively canonised in the TKD Addendum. FWIW, in *Power Hungry* the *chuS'ugh* 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.)
The "Star Trek Fact Files" magazine no. 89 claims the following: https://archive.org/stream/StarTrekFactFilesNo89/Star%20Trek%20Fact%20Files%... "Klingon opera is often accompanied by the bagpipe-like musical instrument known as a chuS'ugh." So... a bagpipe which is played with a bow? Interesting. -- De'vID