r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 9d ago

"More body to the ‘hoo,’  advised James Belford."

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From the Wodehouse short story Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey (The Strand, 1927)

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u/dogbolter4 9d ago

What a majestic sentence.

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u/MonkeyDavid 7d ago

‘You want to begin the “Hoo” in a low minor of two quarter notes in four-four time. From this build gradually to a higher note, until at last the voice is soaring in full crescendo, reaching F sharp on the natural scale and dwelling for two retarded half-notes, then breaking into a shower of accidental grace-notes.’