Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

You devil! A perfect Fifth on a Ruby Stradivarius. Qué?

Philippe Quint plays the 1708 Ruby strad, apparently

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Philippe Quint plays the 1708 Ruby strad, apparently

He does, indeed, ami - I was thinking that that was the tricky bit! The rest shouldn't take you five minutes

[amateur51]

Sarasate is recorded as having admired the Ruby Strad and coincidentally Quint won the 1997 Pablo de Sarasate International Violin Competition

Tartini wrote the Devil's Trill sonata but I'm not getting any links here.

[Nick Armstrong]

it undoubtedly belongs to the hedgehog

Francois Couperin - Ordre 9eme de clavecin - Allemande a deux clavecins - hence the German hint I guess

Back online, I dozily can't work out what the N was - might it be explained patiently for those at the back of the class?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sarasate is recorded as having admired the Ruby Strad and coincidentally Quint won the 1997 Pablo de Sarasate International Violin Competition

Tartini wrote the Devil's Trill sonata but I'm not getting any links here.

Errrmm ... Quint. (A spectral work, perhaps).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Back online, I dozily can't work out what the N was - might it be explained patiently for those at the back of the class?

I think it's Ninth (Coleslaw wasn't provided) - Beethoven's Ninth Piano Trio, Couperin's Ninth Book for the Clavecin ... and the other Ninth thingy.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Errrmm ... Quint. (A spectral work, perhaps).

Have we come to a stop? Miles to go before we sleep.

[mercia]

What N might connect an absent Russian, a necessary additional harpsichord, and an innovatory additional choir?

Beethoven Ninth quartet, opus 59/3
Couperin Ninth ordre de clavecin
Beethoven Ninth Symphony

[mercia]

Peter Quint, ghost in Turn of the Screw
Quint, an organ stop which sounds the fifth of the scale

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Peter Quint, ghost in Turn of the Screw

- and described in the boy Miles' last words (spoken) "you devil!"

Quint, an organ stop which sounds the fifth of the scale

So, with M Philippe, a trio of Quints. Ami got the word and the first connection, mercs the remaining two, so honours tied, methinks. R either of you ready with a piratical ARRRRR, lads?

[antongould]

Have we come to a stop? Miles to go before we sleep.

I think not all the gas lamps will be extinguished in Spennymoor .....

[mercia]

Ami got the word

I just squinted

[amateur51]

Mine was mere googling, over to mercs I reckon ...

[Flay]

... ah, the former days of AA - distant memories! Do you recall that we even had an Official Archivist - was it rubbernecker? - who recorded all the clue Words used in all of the alphabetical cycles - amazing!

Happy days...

Or was it mercs?

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?652-Alphabet-associations&p=65957#post65957

[mercia]

mercs tried to take over from rubbernecker but didn't have the stamina to keep it up, and is now struggling to think of an R question



an R please to link

Johnny Marks, Rose-Marie, David Wall