Getting old

[amateur51]

Dear Ventilhorn, you do not like off-topic posts but as this thread is about a serious subject, old age and death, I am surprised that you side track into grammatical aberrations.

[Runs for cover] salymap

Runs, salymap?

Runs??!!

Yes well, it's all relative (usually on your Mother's side )

[salymap]

salymap - I think this may have been a subject that's cropped up before - but I see in next week's Radio Times : Saturday 24 September BBC Radio 4 Extra [BBC Radio 7 as was... ] - "5.30pm One Way to Necropolis Alan Dein travels along the railway line that leads from London's Waterloo to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey."

There was both a TV film and a radio programme about Brookwood some time ago. The place is very atmospheric and well worth a visit.

[Norfolk Born]

Dear Ventilhorn, you do not like off-topic posts but as this thread is about a serious subject, old age and death, I am surprised that you side track into grammatical aberrations.

[Runs for cover] salymap

My thoughts precisely - but then, you might expect somebody with a name like that to blow off from time to time....

[Ventilhorn]

My thoughts precisely - but then, you might expect somebody with a name like that to blow off from time to time....

Put it down to my old age ─ whatever "blow off" means in your vocabulary.

A ventilhorn is a horn which has valves; as opposed to a waldhorn which is a horn without valves. (Where is Waldhorn, by the way?)

VH

[MrGongGong]

So how do I free up my stuck tuning slide ?
soaking in WD40 and gentle heat ?
or take it to Paxmans ?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Put it down to my old age ─ whatever "blow off" means in your vocabulary.

A ventilhorn is a horn which has valves; as opposed to a waldhorn which is a horn without valves. (Where is Waldhorn, by the way?)

VH

So a shofar is a waldhorn?

[MrGongGong]

So a shofar is a waldhorn?

errr no
but this man is a god of alphorn (which isn't a waldhorn either !)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fUvjca2pA&feature=related

and the final horn thing for the day is this !

http://www.british-horn.org/events.html

worth a trip I say !!!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

errr no
but this man is a god of alphorn (which isn't a waldhorn either !)

Only Hoffnung thought there was an alphorn in the work you appear to be alluding to.

[MrGongGong]

Only Hoffnung thought there was an alphorn in the work you appear to be alluding to.

I wasn't alluding to any work ?
but Balthasar Streiff is certainly amongst the best