Talk:hi-hat

Note that for no reason, whatsoever, this noun is hyphenated. Always. --Connel MacKenzie 23:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Except when it isn't? or this? Yes, it is almost always hi-hat, probably because it makes the pronunciation more obvious than "hihat". (Note that one of those links uses both hi hat and hi-hat.) And it is a compounding of two words.

Of course this is a shortening of "high hat cymbals", and why they are "high hat" should be fairly obvious (they were low boys until Papa added the longer rod). Invented by Papa Jo Jones, of the Count Basie band, aka Mr. High Hat! [rimshot!]. Robert Ullmann 23:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)