Alphabet associations - I

[cloughie]

The W is a name which is in each of the three, the spelling differs slightly in one of them!

[Flay]

The W is a name which is in each of the three, the spelling differs slightly in one of them!

You mean like wicket, wicker & wicked? (But you said wicked so that can't be it)

[cloughie]

You mean like wicket, wicker & wicked? (But you said wicked so that can't be it)

Almost, they all sound the same but one has an extra letter!

[Nick Armstrong]

Almost, they all sound the same but one has an extra letter!

I remain puzzled, which was undoubtedly and understandably your intention!

Are the reconstructions musical à la Payne, Deryck Cooke etc?

[Flay]

I've got this idée fixe that it's Wicker as in Wicker Man (e.g. Iron Maiden & the film & festival - burning at midnight), the Wickerman Festival in Scotland...

[Nick Armstrong]

I've got this idée fixe that it's Wicker as in Wicker Man (e.g. Iron Maiden & the film & festival - burning at midnight), the Wickerman Festival in Scotland...

I think I might have it....

Welles?

Orson of that ilk made

- Chimes at Midnight based on the Falstaff story
- A number of Welles's movies had to be reconstructed (Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil) having been re-edited by the studios...

And then there's a jazz trombonist called Dickie Wells (which 'sounds like' Welles)

But what's the damned cricket connection? Other than http://www.wellscricketclub.com/

[mercia]

Think cricket!

as in "pitch" ?

"sound-alike trombones" / "interesting score"

is there a piece where the trombones play the same note throughout ?

[mercia]

there's a jazz trombonist called Dickie Wells (which 'sounds like' Welles)

But what's the damned cricket connection?

Dickie Bird - cricket umpire ?

[Anna]

Almost, they all sound the same but one has an extra letter!

But Caliban's suggestion of Welles, Welles and Wells is the opposite isn't it - by having one less letter? I confess I hadn't looked at the question until this morning and I'm stumped for any alternative answer!

[cloughie]

I remain puzzled, which was undoubtedly and understandably your intention!

Are the reconstructions musical à la Payne, Deryck Cooke etc?

The reconstructions are from scratch by listening to recordings.

[cloughie]

But Caliban's suggestion of Welles, Welles and Wells is the opposite isn't it - by having one less letter? I confess I hadn't looked at the question until this morning and I'm stumped for any alternative answer!

Quite so Anna, it's not Wells, not Bird, the cricket connection is a BJism from TMS.

[cloughie]

as in "pitch" ?

"sound-alike trombones" / "interesting score"

is there a piece where the trombones play the same note throughout ?

The sound-alike relates to the name-spelling not specifically the music.

[mercia]

are the reconstructions of one particular piece or several?
is the W the reconstructor or the composer of the piece(s) being reconstructed?
or the name of the piece(s) being reconstructed?

the only things I can find being reconstructed from recordings are an organist's improvisations
or possibly piano pieces

[mercia]

a BJism from TMS.

oh lor, that tedious man

wonder? as in "the bearded wonder"
Willey? as in "The bowler's Holding ...." etc.

[amateur51]

are the reconstructions of one particular piece or several?
is the W the reconstructor or the composer of the piece(s) being reconstructed?
or the name of the piece(s) being reconstructed?

Attaboy, mercs!

Give him a bit of his own medicine