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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Organ stings? #206632 08/11/2012 1:37 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky There's a book review in our paper today (ew, and it also says, "He pours over several shelves of books...") in which one sentence reads, "By this point there can be little doubt that we are involved in a modern melodrama, but not the kind with organ stings and blatant overacting." Can anyone tell me what is meant by 'organ stings'? The review is for The Prisoner of Heaven , the third in what is to become a tetralogy about "The Cemetery of Forgotten Books" by Carlos Luis Zafon. Anybody know this work? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Organ stings? Jackie #206636 08/11/2012 5:01 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Maybeso, Jackie. Reading the context of his use of the term a "organ sting" might be the sudden introduction of organ music to highlight the intended drama of a play or a movie. Did you cringe when you first heard Bach's Toccata and Fugue in the 1931 film "Dracula"? Yeah, me too. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Organ stings? Jackie #206640 08/12/2012 12:05 AM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Candy Pooh-Bah Candy Pooh-Bah Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under I've not heard the term 'organ sting' but I like your theory jenny jenny While I was never scared of Dracula I do think about sharks when swimming in the ocean. The main "shark" theme, to JAWS, played on a tuba, uses just two notes and has become synonymous with approaching danger. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Organ stings? Candy #206641 08/12/2012 10:59 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 A quick googling shows the phrase being used in many contexts in a way that supports jennyjenny's conjecture. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22organ+stings%22 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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