de planta

English translation: in-house

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Spanish term or phrase:de planta
English translation:in-house
Entered by: Anna Moorby DipTrans

09:12 Oct 9, 2003
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary / Music, radio, Venezuela
Spanish term or phrase: de planta
Si bien sólo las grandes emisoras tuvieron orquestas fijas, prácticamente todas tenían guitarristas de planta, versátiles y apropiados al repertorio en boga, pero, sobre todo, más económicos
Anna Moorby DipTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:37
in-house
Explanation:
expression used all over Latin-America
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Thomas Kis-Major
Australia
Local time: 05:37
Grading comment
That's the expression I was grasping for! Thanks everyone
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5guitarists in their staff
Valentín Hernández Lima
5in-house
Thomas Kis-Major
5their own guitarists
James Calder
4 +1house
Marian Greenfield


  

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guitarists in their staff


Explanation:
The expression "de planta" means "en la plantilla", that is, the guitarists were actually employees of the TV stations, as there were many live performances and guest singers.

Cheerio,

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Valentín Hernández Lima
Spain
Local time: 20:37
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 1336
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in-house


Explanation:
expression used all over Latin-America

Thomas Kis-Major
Australia
Local time: 05:37
Native speaker of: Hungarian
PRO pts in pair: 31
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That's the expression I was grasping for! Thanks everyone
xx
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their own guitarists


Explanation:
as in 'practically all employed their own guitarists.'

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Note added at 2003-10-09 09:24:24 (GMT)
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Better still, \'nearly all of them had their own guitarists.\'

James Calder
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:37
Native speaker of: English
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house


Explanation:
house musicians; house guitarrists

just as you would have in theater

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Marian Greenfield
Local time: 15:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 14617

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