Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

How about for starters (but I cannot see where it is going yet):

<< Irving Berlin never learned to play in more than one key and used a custom-made 1940 Weser Brothers piano with a transposing lever to change keys >>

[subcontrabass]

How about for starters (but I cannot see where it is going yet):

<< Irving Berlin never learned to play in more than one key and used a custom-made 1940 Weser Brothers piano with a transposing lever to change keys >>

Wrong instrument.

[mercia]

Wrong instrument.

perhaps flute?

[subcontrabass]

perhaps flute?

[amateur51]

My (only) New Year resolution was going to be to not even attempt to answer questions set by certain people until somebody else has done most of the hard work and/or sufficient clues have been extracted from the setter to bring it within my scope of competence. However, I've decided to put it into practice a day early
Happy New Year to all AA-coholics

Such a sound resolution, Norfs

May I join in?

[Flay]

perhaps flute?

Go for it Mercia. I am about to go out for the rest of the day and overnight so I cannot mention Johann Joachim Quantz's two-keyed flute

[mercia]

I am about to go out

me too

[Nick Armstrong]

me too

Yes and I too like Sir Andrew Aguecheek... I'm orff into the country for Sherlock Holmes and venison stew, so someone should scoop the Q which looks to be there for the taking thanks to Flay, and set a New Year's R

So a last greeting for 2011 to AAites and warmest wishes for a quizzical and stimulating, happy and healthy new year!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sherlock Holmes and venison stew

??!

So a last greeting for 2011 to AAites and warmest wishes for a quizzical and stimulating, happy and healthy new year!

And to you, too!

[subcontrabass]

Go for it Mercia. I am about to go out for the rest of the day and overnight so I cannot mention Johann Joachim Quantz's two-keyed flute

But you could mention his tuning slide.

[Norfolk Born]

Such a sound resolution, Norfs

May I join in?

Please do (membership is free)!

[Norfolk Born]

In the spirit of my New Year resolution - is the answer to the current question 'Quantz', and, if so, has anybody officially answered it yet?

[subcontrabass]

In the spirit of my New Year resolution - is the answer to the current question 'Quantz', and, if so, has anybody officially answered it yet?

The answers to your questions are "yes" and "no" respectively.

Can you roll us into the new year with an 'R'?

[Norfolk Born]

OK - an 'R' is on its way...

[Norfolk Born]

Which 'R' links:
(a) The beginning of a third Act
(b) A song from a 1965 album
(c) An orchestral piece dropped twice in 4 years
(d) Composers born in Salzburg, Bradford and Cambridge?