How many body parts are related to music? Even with a big stretch?
There's the notochord and the cerebellum...
What others can we make wild musical associations with based simply on the words themselves?
I think we could get away with 'bones, in other words...
I can think of at least two more, but I'll shut up for now and see whether anybody else wants to play with body parts.
Drumstick, which is a chicken's femur. How about windpipe?
Playing the notes on woodwind instruments requires the proper fingerings.
The technique used to stop and start the notes is called tonguing.
Someone who can detect off notes has a good ear.
I believe that oboe and bassoon players talk about their reeds having a good "cheek".
I know I'll think of several more as soon as I sign off...
welcome, hibernicus! shouldn't you be sleeping now?
In the ears we have two tympani...also hammers (as in pianos) and anvils (as in the opera chorus).
What do you want to do about the bladder? Every good bagpipes has one. We have two (at least to start with).
Valves for brass instruments?
Can we invoke recorded music? We have discs, though not generally compact.
And there are many anatomical triangles.
P.S. How could I forget? Our bodies are full of organs!
hair of the bow.
drum heads can be made of calfskin.
Did anybody say vocal chords?
Hibernicus posted drumstick of chicken thigh. I have seen a man with doigts en baguettes de tambour - drumstick fingers.
As a last resort, there are the musical offerings of
Le Petomane:
http://www.ooze.com/ooze13/petomane.htmlYou can go higher than that, but you can't go lower!
I had a pharmacology prof who told me that the peppermint
in heartburn tablets acted as a "carminative" - to give relief by making the patient "sing" (carmen) in musical burps.
Alas, the etymology is not as explicit as I could wish.
" Pharmacists familiar with the adjective carminative to describe a stomach warming. anti-flatulent medicine will realise that it does not have to be coloured red when it is seen that the root is from carminare, L., to heal by incantation. Though one wonders if the incanter was made more imposing if red dye had been applied to body or robes, or if he became red-faced during the incantation!'
You need a good embouchure to play the flute or the shakuhachi. From the French bouche 'mouth' from Latin bucca 'cheek'.
Embouchure can also mean the mouth of a river. Interesting: both uses mean strictly that something is flowing out of and not into, whereas in thinking of a human mouth I think of things going in probably more than I do coming out. Babies putting things in their mouths, etc.