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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26506

    Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
    Sorry. There, there... To be honest, I didn't think anyone else was around. Gerontius literally means old man.
    I just appeared having made no inroads on your clue last night.. and thought - Nash - geriatric - Gerontius - Never mind.

    O we have a new challenge from mercia...
    "...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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    • Tapiola
      Full Member
      • Jan 2011
      • 1688

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      I was forgetting that Gerontius is old

      an O please to connect

      - a Romany student
      - number 92 (no, not a bus)
      - Dylan on Meredith
      - Percy's 1938 "friend"
      Oxford?

      Haydn's Symphony no 92 - nicknamed Oxford
      Bob Dylan's song "Oxford Town" is about civil rights activist James Meredith
      Percy Scholes "Oxford Companion to Music" (1938)
      Stuck on the other clue...

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        very, very good Mr Tapiola

        two alternative words for Romany student?

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        • rubbernecker

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          very, very good Mr Tapiola

          two alternative words for Romany student?
          Scholar Gipsy - Arnold

          I was stuck on the Scholes reference, so well done Taps

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
            Scholar Gipsy - Arnold
            with a musical connection?

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            • Tapiola
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 1688

              Aah. VW's Oxford Elegy.

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              • Tapiola
                Full Member
                • Jan 2011
                • 1688

                I also came across this on wiki:

                "The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1611) – The only human inhabitant of the mythical island the character Caliban is thought to be named after the word Kaliban meaning black or with blackness in the English Romani language.[6] As the first Romani immigrants arrived in England a century before Shakespear wrote The Tempest, it is thought he may have been influenced by their exotic looks. In this time Romanies in England were targeted for discrimination"

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                • rubbernecker

                  The No. 92 was a bit of a giveaway, there

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                    well done Taps
                    hear! hear!

                    well that was short and sweet

                    P from taps, so to speak

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                    • Tapiola
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 1688

                      Time for a P (all 3 clues are musical):

                      A poacher turned gamekeeper in 1976, part of a famous flautist and, by the sounds of it, an ancestor of Danny.

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                      • Tapiola
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2011
                        • 1688

                        As an aside, thanks to mercia for reminding me of that superb Scholes book. I dip into it often, as a wonderful source of information and a style of writing no longer seen, alas. It's been described as the greatest single volume music reference work. And he wrote it all by himself. Great puzzle, mercia.

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                        • rubbernecker

                          Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                          that superb Scholes book. I dip into it often, as a wonderful source of information
                          As do I; and I don't mind confessing it's provided me with some useful question-setting material for this very thread!

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                            Scholes book
                            does it still have those drawings or engravings of various composers by ......... (can't remember the artist's name)?

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26506

                              Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                              I also came across this on wiki:

                              "The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1611) – The only human inhabitant of the mythical island the character Caliban is thought to be named after the word Kaliban meaning black or with blackness in the English Romani language.[6] As the first Romani immigrants arrived in England a century before Shakespear wrote The Tempest, it is thought he may have been influenced by their exotic looks. In this time Romanies in England were targeted for discrimination"
                              Most interesting Mr T.

                              "Light thickens; and the crow
                              Makes wing to the rooky wood:
                              Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
                              While night's black agents to their preys do rouse."
                              "...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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                              • Tapiola
                                Full Member
                                • Jan 2011
                                • 1688

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                does it still have those drawings or engravings of various composers by ......... (can't remember the artist's name)?
                                My copy is a 1980s edition but I don't have it to hand. Is the artist Batt? Engravings such as Liszt in a train, Beethoven "considers the end" or something as he sits in squalor, Brahms making coffee. Great stuff!

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