Editing Calliope (music) (section)

=={{anchor|Pronunciation}}Pronunciation==

The pronunciation of the word has long been disputed, and often it is pronounced differently inside and outside the groups that use it. The [[Calliope|Greek muse]] by the same name is pronounced {{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|l|aɪ|.|ə|p|i}} {{respell|kə|LY|ə|pee}}, but the instrument was usually pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|æ|l|i|oʊ|p}} {{respell|KAL|ee|ohp}} by people who played it.<ref>{{Cite dictionary |url=http://www.lexico.com/en/definition/calliope |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426214300/https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/calliope |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 26, 2022 |title=calliope |dictionary=[[Lexico]] US English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |title = THERE'S JUST ONE WAY TO PRONOUNCE KAL-EE-OPE |date = 2000-04-02 |url = https://greensboro.com/theres-just-one-way-to-pronounce-kal-ee-ope/article_482f7423-b5dd-5fb8-9bf4-a06d43c60e87.html |access-date = 2024-08-05 |work = Greensboro News & Record |ref = none}}</ref> A nineteenth-century magazine, ''[[Reedy's Mirror]]'', attempted to settle the dispute by publishing this rhyme:<ref>{{cite web
  | last =Guillaum
  | first =Ted
  | title =MQ Calliope Press Release-Part 2
  | date = 2003-01-18
  | url =http://www.steamboats.org/talkshop/messages/2175.html
  | access-date = 2007-02-20 }}</ref>
{{poemquote|Proud folk stare after me,
Call me Calliope;
Tooting joy, tooting hope,
I am the calliope.}}

This, in turn, came from a poem by [[Vachel Lindsay]], called "The Kallyope {{sic}} Yell",<ref>{{cite web
  | title =The Kallyope Yell
  | date = 2003-01-18
  | url =http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/amv13_3.html
  | access-date = 2007-02-20 }}</ref>
in which Lindsay uses both pronunciations.<ref>{{cite web
 |last        = Lehmann
 |first       = Gary
 |title       = Vachel Lindsay: A Madman Who Burst His Rivets on a Head of Steam
 |date        = Fall 2005
 |url         = http://www.jmww.150m.com/Lindsay.html
 |access-date  = 2007-02-20
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070515073540/http://www.jmww.150m.com/Lindsay.html
 |archive-date = 2007-05-15
}}</ref>

In the song "[[Blinded by the Light]]", written in 1972, [[Bruce Springsteen]] used the four-syllable ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|l|aɪ|.|ə|p|i}} {{respell|kə|LY|ə|pee}}) pronunciation commonly used in the United States when referring to a fairground organ; this was also used by the British [[Manfred Mann's Earth Band]] in their 1976 [[Cover version|cover]].