Which part of music is your absolute specialist subject ?

[vinteuil]

I don't have a specialist subject.

... ni moi non plus.

But various Venn diagrams of 'baroque', 'French', 'harpsichord' - might well find me...

[Mary Chambers]

(because I've sing much of it)

Cringing at my typo, now I've noticed it. It's Autocorrect's fault. It thinks everything I type is wrong

[kea]

Schumann's piano music I guess, and Beethoven. Even within those fields the number of subtopics on which I can confidently say I know a lot is very small.

Then there is a wide range of topics on which I have a superficial level of knowledge, enough to convince less informed people that I'm an expert but embarrassingly trivial and short on facts when brought up against an actual expert: hobby-horse "neglected" composers (Dussek, Medtner, Ives, Enescu, Skalkottas, Roslavets), historical periods (late Classical/early Romantic, Soviet Russia, late 20th/early 21st centuries), genres (string quartets and quintets, 20th century solo concerti), the music industry... to say nothing of all sorts of extra-musical topics, history and economics and psychology and gardening and what-have-you. An addiction early in life to trivia quizzes and games is probably the root cause of this, I've often been told I'd make an excellent University Challenge participant.

[amateur51]

I'm pretty much tops at whistling Mahler symphonies, Bruckner's too

Any requests?

[amateur51]

Sad that Mozart didn't write anything for the washboard ... its possibilities are considerable with a glass harmonica. Here's an expert ...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Derrick+Guyler+washboard&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&source=hp&gfe_rd=cr&ei=3TnqU8WBK-HH8gfMtYKwCQ#channel=np&q=deryck+guyler+washboard&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

He was a Desert Rat y'know

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm pretty much tops at whistling Mahler symphonies, Bruckner's too

Any requests?

I too can manage to whistle long stretches of Bruckner - the many bits that keep repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating,

[Serial_Apologist]

I too can manage to whistle long stretches of Bruckner - the many bits that keep repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating,

Is the fifth repeat when they played 4'33" as an encore?

[amateur51]

I too can manage to whistle long stretches of Bruckner - the many bits that keep repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating,

I bet your repeats are done with the same bluddy vibrato too

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I bet your repeats are done with the same bluddy vibrato too

I never whistle with vibrato. My dad did and it drove me crazy.

[cloughie]

I'm pretty much tops at whistling Mahler symphonies, Bruckner's too

Any requests?

There is a trend towards taking whistle blowers seriously recently.

[Padraig]

There is a trend towards taking whistle blowers seriously recently.

Thank you cloughie.
You did know I had taken up the feadóg seriously?

[cloughie]

Thank you cloughie.
You did know I had taken up the feadóg seriously?

Excellent - I hope it leads to great things - Jimmy Galway started off there!

[gamba]

Music for viols, solo or in consort. I melt before their sounds.

[Lento]

Mine is prattling on about music of which I have no specialist knowledge.

[Padraig]

Excellent - I hope it leads to great things - Jimmy Galway started off there!

The great thing is to have started.