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  • rubbernecker

    Gnome?

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    • rubbernecker

      Originally posted by hercule
      are you sure?

      why would that be then?
      OK, I admit I'm struggling with the first but I reckon the second refers to our favourite group, featuring ol' crazy diamond himself, The Gnome from Piper.

      The third is not Wagner (I was originally thinking about Mime from Siegfried) but is in fact Caliban's favourite composer , and the second of his two concert etudes called Gnomenreigen (Dance of the Gnomes) the first companion piece being Waldesrauschen (Forest Murmurs)

      Sorry I can't do a clean sweep... (if I'm right?)

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      • rubbernecker

        Originally posted by hercule
        sorry, this isn't my territory, could you be boringly explicit
        Oh dear, Hercule. Do you mean to say you missed all our various thread digressions on Pink Floyd? It seems everyone participating in Alphabet Associations (and a few who don't) are closet Floydies. Piper at the Gates of Dawn, their first album featuring Syd Barrett, is many people's favourite...

        Go on, give us a clue for the first, then...

        EDIT: ok, you have

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26574

          Originally posted by hercule

          saunter = promenade
          Nice one rubbers... Well that means No 1 is the Gnome from Pictures at an Exhibition....
          "...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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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26574

            Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
            ...in fact Caliban's favourite composer
            A propos Mr R I could do with some help on the "music you switched off" thread - I'm fighting a single handed battle against Lizstophiles polite and less polite. I seem to recall you think Liszt was responsible for more than his fair share of stinkers... I need back up!!!!
            "...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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            • subcontrabass
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 2780

              Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
              It seems everyone participating in Alphabet Associations (and a few who don't) are closet Floydies.

              Most definitely not guilty.

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              • rubbernecker

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                I seem to recall you think Liszt was responsible for more than his fair share of stinkers... I need back up!!!!
                I was thinking of wading in, but stayed my hand... Don't tempt me!

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                • rubbernecker

                  Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                  Most definitely not guilty.
                  Somehow, I just knew you were going to say that, scb!

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26574

                    Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                    I was thinking of wading in, but stayed my hand... Don't tempt me!

                    Oh well... I played the Tamas Vasary card, that seems to have made them back off

                    Time to drop your H, rubbers...
                    "...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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                    • rubbernecker

                      Originally posted by hercule

                      quite so, well done chaps
                      unless you want to fight over it, I guess rubbers takes over .............


                      (how do you rate my question, out of 10?)
                      Well, the use of 'shocking' was a bit of a giveaway, but not bad, Hercule.

                      I now need to get lycra-ed up for the cycle home, so will be unable to provide an H until probably about 11pm this evening. Amuse yourselves in the interim

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26574

                        Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                        Well, the use of 'shocking' was a bit of a giveaway, but not bad, Hercule.

                        I now need to get lycra-ed up for the cycle home, so will be unable to provide an H until probably about 11pm this evening. Amuse yourselves in the interim
                        Good luck, lycranecker. Yes I got to the Floyd from "shocking" but dwelt too long on Gilmour...

                        As far as I am concerned that was an 8 or 9 in the question stakes - obscure enough to demand thought but straightforward enough to be gettable with a bit of concentration and lateral thinking
                        "...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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                        • Don Petter

                          Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                          It seems everyone participating in Alphabet Associations (and a few who don't) are closet Floydies.
                          Only if you mean the chef with the bottle.

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                          • rubbernecker

                            What H is shared by a German conductor/keyboardist, an American violinist and a naturalised French musician?

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                            • Norfolk Born

                              Jorg-Hannes Hahn, Hilary Hahn and Reynaldo Hahn?

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                              • rubbernecker

                                Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
                                Jorg-Hannes Hahn, Hilary Hahn and Reynaldo Hahn?
                                A clean plate, that's what we like to see...

                                Well done, Ofca. Give us one in the I

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