There ain't no justice. Entertainement is more honored than the healing arts. Long before there were any sound effects,
a urologist named Foley created a latex catheter that brought blessed relief to thousands of men suffering from inability to void until his device, containing a urological sound was passed through his urethra into the bladder, so that a baloon at its tip could be inflated, to keep it in place. I still remember the first time I heard that sound mentioned. A urologist spoke of passing a sound up the male urethra, and an ex-jock nest to me nudged me and whispered:
"Hey, it this old bastard joking?" I had trouble maintaining a straight face, with ludicrous a visual image of the lecturer, with the tip of the penis between his lips, going:"Tweeeeeee...."

It's also a rotating type of speaker used by rock bands. Anybody got any other candidates for most eponyms?

rotating type of speaker

nah, that's a Leslie. usually paired with a Hammond B3 organ...

leslie, foley, iceberg

Seriously, cygne, thanks for the correction. I think I misread the scribbled note in my Junk Drawer Memory®. I'll try to rewrite it a little more clearly.

hehe. I've a junk drawer like that, too! except mine seems often to be written in a foreign language. like Latin.

Confusing one word for another is easy enough but the mix up between a rock band and a hammond organ?!?!?

I learned about these speakers in a bar from members of a rock band, which rock band used these speakers.

So there

Pblblblblblblffft!

Or either, maybe they *were foleys.

Zed, lots of rock bands, especially during the 70's, used Hammond B3's, with Leslie speakers. now, they're coming back in vogue, but they are a bear to lug around! Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer was one famous B3 user.
in a Leslie speaker cabinet, the horn speaker actually rotated, giving it it's distinctive sound.

http://b3world.com/leslie.html

Sorry I always associate the Hammond with (rats what is his name) from Red Dwarf.
But at least I learned how to spell "Pblblblblblblffft!"

Sorry I always associate the Hammond with (rats what is his name) from Red Dwarf.


Rimmer, Arnold; second technician

Rimmer, of course. I salu-u-u-ute you![waggling hand idiotically e]