Talk:Pochette (musical instrument)

Violino piccolo
If this is identical with Violino piccolo shouldn't the two articles be merged? Will put up a merge sort-of-thing if so... Schissel-nonLop! 17:28, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think so, but I'd like to have an expert on the subject say so. Why don't you put up the merge template, and see what happens? If nothing, I would say...be bold! -- Violin  G  irl ♪ 01:10, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've added the mergefrom template. --Stlemur 02:47, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

poche violin
Where may I get one of these? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 155.219.241.10 (talk) 18:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC).


 * There are several luthiers making them today; try googling "pochette fiddle". cmadler (talk) 16:26, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Infobox
Discussion of the infobox that just showed up is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musical Instruments. __Just plain Bill (talk) 23:21, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Etymology
My guess is that the word kit is related to the Greek word κιθάρα, which, although nowadays means guitar, is still a somewhat related instrument. Compare the etymologies of the words cithara, guitar, and zither. Just a thought.—Strabismus (talk) 05:42, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Pochette
Pochette redirects to this page. Do an image websearch for "pochette" though and you'll see only images of small handbags or shoulder bags. It seems that modern use of the word "pochette" more often refers to a type of handbag than to a type of violin. Request to make Pochette a disambiguation page between Kit violin and Handbag instead of only redirecting to Kit violin. - 213.197.7.61 (talk) 14:04, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Image search is not exactly an encyclopedically reliable source for the prevalence of a term. In this case, commercial presentations using posh nomenclature probably outnumber scholarly uses. "Pochette" does not appear in Wikipedia's handbag article.
 * Searching for Wikipedia articles with the word "pochette" in the body or references just now showed me 58 pages, with meanings including a French word for a package, the packaging of a CD and its associated artwork, a small-bodied violin suitable for carrying in a pocket, or handkerchief meant to be seen peeking out of a pocket. Aside from the kit violin, none of those uses appear as the primary topic of an article.
 * It might be useful to put a hatnote to the effect of "Pochette redirects here; for another use, see Handbag" but I believe it will take some better evidence to gather a consensus around that. Just plain Bill (talk) 16:12, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

ambiguous
only the actual dimensions are not given (nor deductible from the text). and even theres a lot said throughout the article about some pocket, by the end of the article it is still not clear whether a leather bag (pouch) or an actual pocket of the common sense (aka a pocket on my trousers) is being referred to. the picture also carries no sign of dimensions. it could be anything from say 2 inches to two feet. uis this article a stub?89.134.199.32 (talk) 19:13, 18 December 2019 (UTC).

Wrong instrument name in Greek in Etymology.
The Greek word κιθάρα means guitar. Citterne is τσιτέρνα. Unless, and it's possible, the meaning of κιθάρα has changed to meaning guitar from meaning citterne.The Real Walrus (talk) 10:11, 17 June 2023 (UTC)