Beanies?

[ducktrapper]

It looks like the Larrivee family may be totally Americanized. I received an email today for items from the Larrivee store. I see that they are calling toques "beanies" now. The horror!    

They will always be toques to me. (toooks)   

[ducktrapper]

This, by the way, is a beanie.

[Mikeymac]

LOL!

[ducktrapper]

I found out yesterday that the consulate in Montreal is ready to approve my green card as soon as I send them my passport. They will always be toques to me, however.   

[unclrob]

skull cap's.

[Mikeymac]

I found out yesterday that the consulate in Montreal is ready to approve my green card as soon as I send them my passport. They will always be toques to me, however.   

Congrats! Hope things move quickly for you! 

[Riverbend]

In snowy Michigan we just call them hats, or stocking caps when we get fussy.

[ryler]

In New England we would call that a hat.  Definitely not a beanie.  I had never heard of a toque before this thread.  But the picture of the beanie, well that had me laugh.

[Riverbend]

I found out yesterday that the consulate in Montreal is ready to approve my green card as soon as I send them my passport. They will always be toques to me, however.   

Happy for you, I remember reading about your ordeal. I can't imagine.

[Phil42]

Back in my Navy days we called them Watch Caps.

Phil

[ST]

From nine years ago - nearly to the day.

Riffing off the conversation about Peter Yarrow covering the headstock of his Larrivée

I usually cover the headstocks of the guitars that I play out.  These are now known as  "guit-toque"s by people who have grown familiar with this peculiar behaviour. Perhaps inspired by this bastion of Canadian culture.



I do it for three reasons -

• I frequently bump the headstock of my guitars on low hanging obstructions.  I stand while performing and wear my guitar fairly high. I change guitars during the sets, so there's a fair chance I'll bump the headstock into a low hanging monitor, or heaven forbid, a television, or a microphone.  I'm just as happy not to have little dents and divots in my headstocks.
  
• It's funny to mess with guitarists who think that my ablity as a player is somehow correlated with the name on the headstock.
  
• I'm not into talking "guitars" when I'm out performing. It's much more interesting to relate to people as they relate to music than it is to geek out with a guitar-freak who wants to engage me with his obsession with brand names and other minutiae. These  conversations are often a masque for  the narcissism of small differences.*
  
  

*No disrespect for anyone here. Everything in its place: This forum and guitar-centric get-togethers are the places for guitar-centric conversations, but I don't care to have conversations about guitars when I'm out at a gig - a performer for a broader audience.