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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26572

    Have a nice day.... light explosives now... and now.... (optional shoe horn)

    Apologies if this is known to the modern music hardcore, but this made me smile.... especially some of the directions...


    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

  • MrGongGong
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    • Nov 2010
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    #2

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    • MrGongGong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 18357

      #3
      There's lots of this about

      My uncle, John Arthur Stump, who was my father’s youngest brother, died on January 20, 2006.  His memorial service was held at a Vedanta monastery in Hollywood, where my other uncle (known th…

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      • Flosshilde
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        • Nov 2010
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        #4
        I see that Caliban's example has a gong duet at one point

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        • MrGongGong
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          • Nov 2010
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          #5
          Release the penguins

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          • Flosshilde
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            • Nov 2010
            • 7988

            #6
            If?

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            • Serial_Apologist
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              • Dec 2010
              • 37814

              #7
              Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
              I reckon he plagiarised all that off Sorabji.

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              • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                • Nov 2010
                • 20572

                #8
                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                Apologies if this is known to the modern music hardcore, but this made me smile.... especially some of the directions...




                I'm sure there's a wrong note in bar 5.

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                • ahinton
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 16123

                  #9
                  Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                  There is indeded, although it is perhaps disappointing to note that, in the item entitled Prelude..., the source shows that the composer seems not to know his goose from his duck; we all know the "duck or grouse" admonition, but I've never seen "duck or goose"...

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                  • Nick Armstrong
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26572

                    #10
                    Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                    There is indeded, although it is perhaps disappointing to note that, in the item entitled Prelude..., the source shows that the composer seems not to know his goose from his duck; we all know the "duck or grouse" admonition, but I've never seen "duck or goose"...
                    ... either way, a damn good stuffing would appear to be called for.
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Serial_Apologist
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                      • Dec 2010
                      • 37814

                      #11
                      Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                      There is indeded, although it is perhaps disappointing to note that, in the item entitled Prelude..., the source shows that the composer seems not to know his goose from his duck; we all know the "duck or grouse" admonition, but I've never seen "duck or goose"...
                      There's nothing like an occasional grouse for getting things off your chest.

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                      • Serial_Apologist
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                        • Dec 2010
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        ... either way, a damn good stuffing would appear to be called for.
                        We were forbidden to ask customers if they wanted this, when I was a waiter.

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                        • aka Calum Da Jazbo
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 9173

                          #13
                          Cumberland Sauce Sir?
                          According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                          • ahinton
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16123

                            #14
                            Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                            Cumberland Sauce Sir?
                            ...for the gander?...

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                            • Nick Armstrong
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26572

                              #15
                              Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                              Cumberland Sauce Sir?
                              I'm game
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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