[LAU] Ok, dumb question..

[david]

Folderol wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:45:11 -0500
> frank pirrone <frankpirrone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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>> Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 08:23:22AM -0500, Darren Landrum wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://vamp-plugins.org/
>>> One more 'vamp': in Italian a 'vampa' is a big
>>> flame. Like in:
>>>
>>>   Stride la vampa! La folla indomita
>>>   corre a quel foco lieta in sembianza.
>>>   Urli di gioia intorno echeggiano.
>>>
>>>   A big flame rises up! The wild and excited
>>>   crowd assembles around the fire, cries of
>>>   joy echo around.
>>>
>>> Azucena, decribing her mother's execution
>>> at the stake, from Verdi's Il Trovatore.
>>>
>>> Ciao,
>>>
>> Vamp is an actual music term meaning improvisation, so to vamp is to
>> improvise and a vamp is an improvisation.  Not clear how this name
>> "implies" this project, but it's connected at least by music.
>>
>> Frank
> 
> In my neck of the woods it was used as a slightly derogatory term to
> describe the playing of pub pianists that simply hit crash chords,
> more or less in time, and more or less on key :o

I always think the Vamp SDK/plugins "Vamp" is meant to stand for Virtual 
  Amp" ...

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