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  • vinteuil
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    • Nov 2010
    • 12798

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    also what century is our harpsichordist from please
    our harpsichordist: she was a pioneer in the re-discovery of the harpsichord in the twentieth century.

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    • amateur51

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      our harpsichordist: she was a pioneer in the re-discovery of the harpsichord in the twentieth century.
      Wanda?

      What's that funny buzzing noise?

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      • vinteuil
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        • Nov 2010
        • 12798

        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        Wanda?
        nope...

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        • amateur51

          Violet?

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          • antongould
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            • Nov 2010
            • 8781

            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            Violet?
            Given your frequent postings on the Football thread are we talking Dennis?

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            • vinteuil
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              • Nov 2010
              • 12798

              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
              Violet?
              Yes indeedy - she of the extraördinary ménage à cinq...




              [There's a good NYTimes review if you google her, but I can't get the link to work here]

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                Given your frequent postings on the Football thread are we talking Dennis?

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  Yes indeedy - she of the extraördinary ménage à cinq...




                  [There's a good NYTimes review if you google her, but I can't get the link to work here]
                  What an extraordinary life! I must see if there's a biography - evidently she wouldn't have had time for an autobiography

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                  • amateur51

                    Reading about Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp, I got to wondering if the F was fecund

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12798

                      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                      What an extraordinary life! I must see if there's a biography - evidently she wouldn't have had time for an autobiography
                      VIOLET: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse.
                      By Jessica Douglas-Home.

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12798

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Reading about Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp, I got to wondering if the F was fecund
                        naughty boy - no.

                        the von is perhaps in part a clue? - even more so had his name been von Blank ??

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                          VIOLET: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse.
                          By Jessica Douglas-Home.
                          ooooh cheers, vints - have you read it?

                          Is the author any rello of the lamented Baillie Vass, the former PM I wonder?

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                          • Nick Armstrong
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26524

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            Yes indeedy - she of the extraördinary ménage à cinq...




                            [There's a good NYTimes review if you google her, but I can't get the link to work here]
                            Hello all, have emerged after yesterday's 11 hour ( ) meeting. Not with the Mafia, vinsanto...

                            Violet has figured in this thread before, in the early days, I think - I recall boggling at the ménage and recalling that clavichordist now seems like a euphemism.

                            I need to look back and see what letter we're supposed to be aiming at... it's not clear from the last few posts

                            What was the Dennis - football link, ammy? And who the hell is Baillie Vass?
                            "...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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                              • amateur51

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                                What was the Dennis - football link, ammy? And who the hell is Baillie Vass?
                                that was anton, Calibs - I mentioned Violet and anton came back as quick as u like with Dennis - Dennis Viollet, a footballer, one of the Busby Babes innit - did he perish in Munich?

                                Baillie Vass is Private Eye's other name for Sir Alec Douglas-Home, former PM

                                Do I get any points for these tutorials?
                                Last edited by Guest; 12-01-12, 12:26. Reason: adjusting Mr Violett & again

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