Talk:Mirliton

this was also played in a orchestra section called chordophones  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.160.9 (talk) 23:07, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Clean-up
As this stands, it does not meet MOS:DAB at all, especially by adding refs and external links, and by containing mainly dictionary definitions, which are available on Wiktionary. I have been through each entry and none except Chayote are entries which could also be called Miriliton; if they were looking for any of the others, we don't have articles on them, so they shouldn't be on here. I'm reluctant to go through doing basic tidying, such as deleting refs and addressing overlinking, as the other entries don't seem to be valid anyway. Which blue links on here do people think can be addressed as 'Mirliton'? Boleyn2 (talk) 08:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

I couldn't resist tidying it a bit, but have done it one edit at a time so that every reason for every change is logged. Regarding the remaining entries, 'Danse de Mirliton' seems not to have been known as 'Mirliton'; it is highly unlikely that anyone would look for that here, and pages shouldn't contain entries just because they contain the word. However, I'm no expert on The Nutcracker. Regarding the rest, I probably overpruned because the page was such a disaster before. The others do at least mention the word 'Mirliton' so although I think only the first two really merit mention, I don't object to the others being left in, especially as it has many definitions and so the link to Wiktionary may be well-used. I'll make the changes given above re 'danse de Mirliton' and remove clean-up tag for now. Boleyn2 (talk) 08:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Dance of the Mirlitons
This relates to the previous comment. I came to this article specificially to find the meaning of mirliton, after seeing the "Dance of the Mirlitons" on Youtube (Tchaikowsky - Nutcracker Ballet: Dance of the Mirlitons - Kirov Ballet).

I'm still wondering which, if any, of the meanings of mirliton in this article is relevant to the dance.

Thanks. Wanderer57 (talk) 22:13, 29 December 2010 (UTC)