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Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:27 pm

Does it actually mean "Evil place" ?

Kind of a weird title for a piano maker

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:13 am

Yes, "Böse" means angry/evil/malicious, and Dorf is a village.
It's not on GoogleMaps currently but I wouldn't be surprised if 3 or 400 years ago in Austria there was a village called Bösendorf and one of the forefathers of Ignatz Bösendorfer came from that place.

Actually, I found it! Zła Wieś is the current name in Polish, it used to be in Pommern or Danzig-Westpreußen. Google Translator says it translates to poor or bad village.

http://gov.genealogy.net/search/name

Groß Bösendorf, Zła Wieś Wielka Ort Thorn, Bromberg, Danzig-Westpreußen, Deutsches Reich 63134 BOSORFJO93DC
Zła Wieś Mała, Klein Bösendorf Ort Thorn, Bromberg, Danzig-Westpreußen, Deutsches Reich 63134 BOSOR2JO93DC
Zła Wieś, Bösendorf Ort Danzig, Pommern, Republik Polen 67131 BOSORFJO94HE

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:19 pm

BertKoor wrote:Yes, "Böse" means angry/evil/malicious, and Dorf is a village.
It's not on GoogleMaps currently but I wouldn't be surprised if 3 or 400 years ago in Austria there was a village called Bösendorf and one of the forefathers of Ignatz Bösendorfer came from that place.

Actually, I found it! Zła Wieś is the current name in Polish, it used to be in Pommern or Danzig-Westpreußen. Google Translator says it translates to poor or bad village.

Zła Wieś would be a cool name for a metal band

It could almost be pronounced as "Slaves"?

sjm · Post by **sjm** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:30 pm

Isn't the Polish 'ł' pronounced like an English 'w', rather than an 'l'?

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:22 pm

So it would be pronounced something like?: Zwa wie-s

Still a pretty cool metal name, rolls right of the tongue

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 9:48 pm

You don't get many concert pianists in metal bands though...

DSmolken · Post by **DSmolken** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:07 pm

Numanoid wrote:So it would be pronounced something like?: Zwa wie-s

Still a pretty cool metal name, rolls right of the tongue

Sort of like zwa vies, with the s being real hissy if that makes any sense. A great name for either metal covers of country songs, or metal covers of Village People songs.

Not that you get a lot of concert pianists in metal, country or Village People cover bands, but...

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:38 pm

DSmolken wrote:
Not that you get a lot of concert pianists in metal, country or Village People cover bands, but...

You've never been to an all male exotic dance revue and niether have I. Liberace would be proud.

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:56 pm

Wouldn't it mean "A person from the bad or evil village", with the -er addition on the end of the word?

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 2:30 pm

rockstar_not wrote:Wouldn't it mean "A person from the bad or evil village", with the -er addition on the end of the word?

Didn't JFK once say "Ich bin ein Bösendorfer"?

Probably better to be a piano than a jelly donut.

DSmolken · Post by **DSmolken** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:16 pm

rockstar_not wrote:Wouldn't it mean "A person from the bad or evil village", with the -er addition on the end of the word?

"Evil villager", or "villain" for short.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 4:47 pm

DSmolken wrote:Not that you get a lot of concert pianists in metal

This guy was way ahead of his time, would be harder than slipknot these days no doubt

A question of Boesendorfer