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  • Quarky
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 2672

    looks like this one is in the difficult class.

    The easiest way in, in my view, is the French word for the animal in question!

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22189

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Been pondering this all afternoon and the same thought occurred to me - and plows breaking plains too...

      Great puzzle, this.

      Which Spanish guy, cloughie?
      Can't you work it out from my description - Turina.

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8833

        Originally posted by Oddball View Post
        looks like this one is in the difficult class.

        The easiest way in, in my view, is the French word for the animal in question!

        Ah excellent enter Rumpole stage left surely......

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26574

          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          Can't you work it out from my description - Turina.

          I've got enough trouble trying to decipher the puzzle (it's fun! don't get me wrong, Oddball!) without having to decrypt your clues as well, cloughs It's Saturday afternoon, too - my brain's in a bag on the hall table
          "...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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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22189

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post

            I've got enough trouble trying to decipher the puzzle (it's fun! don't get me wrong, Oddball!) without having to decrypt your clues as well, cloughs It's Saturday afternoon, too - my brain's in a bag on the hall table
            Need HRT Cali - Host recovery treatment!

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26574

              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              Ah excellent enter Rumpole stage left surely......
              No pressure, then......
              "...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 Oddball View Post
                the animal in question!
                Is it feathered? Toying with oïe... oiseau...
                "...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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                • Quarky
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 2672

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Is it feathered? Toying with oïe... oiseau...


                  Stick with it Caliban!

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                  • antongould
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8833

                    Originally posted by Oddball View Post


                    Stick with it Caliban!
                    Come on M'Lud ......lost the French-English dictionary?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26574

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      Come on M'Lud ......lost the French-English dictionary?

                      Racking the remains of my brains... Don't think its Oiseau... No Russian for 'Oiseau de Feu'...

                      Frenchman could of course be 'Ma Mère l'Oye' ... but can't think of any other goose-related pieces...
                      "...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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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        Frenchman could of course be 'Ma Mère l'Oye' ... but can't think of any other goose-related pieces...
                        ... or something more exotic?
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Messiaen?
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26574

                            Originally posted by Flay View Post
                            Messiaen?

                            Ah yes! How could I write 'oiseau' and not think of him!
                            "...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

                              Damn it! I was thinking Oriole this afternoon, and not getting anywhere...

                              Messiaen - Golden Oriole from Catalogue des Oiseaux (in French: 'loriot'... a tribute to his wife Yvonne Loriod)
                              James Scott: Oriole Rag (I knew that - used to play it

                              That's the Frog and the Yank.

                              A Spanish composer now...
                              "...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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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795

                                Yradier: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle???
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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