Full Steam Ahead ....... hopefully

[Anna]

BBC4 tonight, 8.30. Half-hour programme about the newly restored Flying Scotman's journey from Kings Cross to Railway Museum, York.

[Nick Armstrong]

BBC4 tonight, 8.30. Half-hour programme about the newly restored Flying Scotman's journey from Kings Cross to Railway Museum, York.

chuf chuf chuf

[ahinton]

chuf chuf chuf

Well, I'm glad that someone's chuffed...

[Ferretfancy]

Some people apparently whinging that it isn't really the Flying Scotsman at all as only 3% of the original remains - no doubt they also think York Minster should have been left without a roof after the fire !

Quite. In any case, we are all replicas, every cell in our body gets replaced many times during our lifetime.

[MrGongGong]

Quite. In any case, we are all replicas, every cell in our body gets replaced many times during our lifetime.

I don't think that's strictly true ?

http://askanaturalist.com/do-we-replace-our-cells-every-7-or-10-years/

[ahinton]

I don't think that's strictly true ?
http://askanaturalist.com/do-we-repl...7-or-10-years/

Either way, I don't see the conection between particular aspects of human biology and Der fliegende Schotte in this or indeed any other context.

Some years ago, I had my 1896 Steinway Model C refurbished (and, boy, did it need it!); new strings, new wrest-plank, new tuning pin, original hammer heads reshaped rather than replaced, pretty much all of the rest of the action replaced, sostenuto pedal mechanism brought up to date, soundboard cleaned up, rosewood casework untouched; would that qualify as a "replica" or as a refurbished 1896 Steinway?

[MrGongGong]

Either way, I don't see the conection beteen human biology and Der fliegende Schotte in this or indeed any other context.

Some years ago, I had my 1896 Steinway Model C refurbished (and, boy, did it need it!); new strings, new wrest-plank, new tuning pin, original hammer heads reshaped rather than replaced, pretty much all of the rest of the action replaced, sostenuto pedal mechanism brought up to date, soundboard cleaned up, rosewood casework untouched; would that qualify as a "replica" or as a refurbished 1896 Steinway?

Interesting question Al
I"ve been involved with a few HLF organ restoration projects and there are some interesting questions in relation to what constitutes "restoration" as opposed to "replacement".

and, boy, did it need it!

I didn't have you down as a prepared piano sort of chap
or have you been doing the playing inside with chains routine?

[P. G. Tipps]

Either way, I don't see the conection beteen human biology and Der fliegende Schotte in this or indeed any other context.

You DON'T?!!!

Wot a plonka ...

[ahinton]

I didn't have you down as a prepared piano sort of chap
or have you been doing the playing inside with chains routine?

Prepared pianos are, to me, pianos that have been prepared for fitness for purpose; for the record and for the avoidance of doubt, the restoration that I had done involved neither my playing (thank God!) nor chains, routine or otherwise (or indeed by Wito Luto)...

[ahinton]

You DON'T?!!!

Wot a plonka ...

Qu'est-ce que c'est un(e?) "plonka" and what is the supposed significance of one in the present context? Might you be getting yourself overly steamed up?...

[Nick Armstrong]

Qu'est-ce que c'est un(e?) "plonka" and what is the supposed significance of one in the present context?

Plonka (alt: Plonker) as in:

[ahinton]

Plonka (alt: Plonker) as in:

Ah, yes, the famous Jackson Pillock! Which said, it would seem that, given the circumstances concerned (namely P. G. Tipps' response, such as it was, to my self-confessed inability to see the conection between human biology and Der fliegende Schotte in any context), said P. G. Tipps has some explaining to do, including not least his own take on the perceived connection between those two phenomena, not that I'd either hold my breath for it or seek to encourage him to provide it as any kind of necessity...

[Nick Armstrong]

Ah, yes, the famous Jackson Pillock! Which said, it would seem that, given the circumstances concerned (namely P. G. Tipps' response, such as it was, to my self-confessed inability to see the conection between human biology and Der fliegende Schotte in any context), said P. G. Tipps has some explaining to do, including not least his own take on the perceived connection between those two phenomena, not that I'd either hold my breath for it or seek to encourage him to provide it as any kind of necessity...

More gin required.....

I'm still not fussy which make!!

[ahinton]

More gin required.....

I'm still not fussy which make!!

Oh, there are many so many! - at least two of which originate in Herefordistan where I currently reside. It's now made in my native Scotland, in France (yes!) and who knows where besides, as well as there having been a recent revival of small distilleries in England. I'm not sur if it's being made in Belgium but, if indeed it is, it might be thought to have enjoyed a lengthy history, given Franck's Les Djinns...

Mindful of your self-confessed unfussiness as to the make of gin, however, I would seriously counsel you against indulGINg in supposedly fancy tonic accompaniments such as Fever Tree lest it give you the 'flu or grows branches...

[Nick Armstrong]

Some simply magnificent images in that programme (Those trial runs in black livery through the snow.... ). Probably better watched with the sound down (rather naff voiceover) and some suitable music booming ... *


*http://www.theguardian.com/music/mus...ired-by-trains