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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
    Bird -> Byrd ???

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    • amateur51

      Originally posted by vinteuil
      Poseidon.
      'Fraid not, vints

      Blimey my puzzles are usually over in a flash, so to speak

      Let's recap - you've got 'bridge' and 'byrd' - how can you capitalise on these so that they become more musical?

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26539

        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post

        "Originally Posted by vinteuil
        Poseidon."

        'Fraid not, vints

        Blimey my puzzles are usually over in a flash, so to speak

        Let's recap - you've got 'bridge' and 'byrd' - how can you capitalise on these so that they become more musical?

        Where is that Poseidon from ??!?

        You've come up with a ammy (btw just took your name in vain on the Saturday Classics thread )

        Bridge... Byrd....
        "...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

          Where is that Poseidon from ??!?

          You've come up with a ammy (btw just took your name in vain on the Saturday Classics thread )

          Bridge... Byrd....
          B-b-bingo Calibs!

          So Bridge & Byrd connected by a P? - title of something they wrote, perhaps?

          And your persecuted Jew? - not British but maybe just across the water?

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26539

            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            B-b-bingo Calibs!
            Bingo??!! I was just repeating what you said and expressing my lack of any idea... !!

            Phantasie??? Can't connect with any Jewish people though...
            "...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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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              phew - our Jewish victim I believe is Dreyfus ........... whose namesake is the founder of .........

              I think I'll leave the rest to somebody else

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                Bingo??!! I was just repeating what you said and expressing my lack of any idea... !!

                Phantasie??? Can't connect with any Jewish people though...
                I'll accept Phantasm, Calibs

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  phew - our Jewish victim I believe is Dreyfus
                  Triffic mercs!
                  So what about a musician similarly named and the name of his group ....?

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26539

                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    I'll accept Phantasm, Calibs
                    Laurence Dreyfus... viols... Phantasm... Bridge... check

                    But I can't find any composition by Byrd called Phantasm...
                    "...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
                      Laurence Dreyfus... viols... Phantasm... Bridge... check

                      But I can't find any composition by Byrd called Phantasm...
                      Bravissimo Calibs!

                      I'll concede that the last part is sneaky - Dreyfuss' Phantasm has recorded Byrd's complete consort music to great acclaim

                      william byrd, byrd, bird, consort, complete consort music, phantasm, phatasm, viol, english, linn, lin, records, linn records, linn recods, studio, studio master, studio mater, 24, 24bit, 24 bit


                      So who's going for the Q/R?

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        So who's going for the Q/R?
                        not me, that's for sure

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          not me, that's for sure

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26539

                            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                            Bravissimo Calibs!

                            I'll concede that the last part is sneaky - Dreyfuss' Phantasm has recorded Byrd's complete consort music to great acclaim

                            william byrd, byrd, bird, consort, complete consort music, phantasm, phatasm, viol, english, linn, lin, records, linn records, linn recods, studio, studio master, studio mater, 24, 24bit, 24 bit


                            So who's going for the Q/R?

                            I feel a bit of a fraud but I'll have a quack at a q... Give me a little time. I need a drink first after that far-from-amateur effort from No. 51 ! Not yet sure if it's coffee or gin

                            Good puzzle though
                            "...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
                              • 26539

                              Tinkle your mental ivories with this one: a Q please to link three pianists:

                              - one whose composition of études was hardly a major achievement
                              - one whose composition with a libertarian theme featured on a nocturnal example of public transport
                              - one whose concerto début took place when he was barely into his teens

                              "...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
                                Tinkle your mental ivories with this one: a Q please to link three pianists:

                                - one whose composition of études was hardly a major achievement
                                - one whose composition with a libertarian theme featured on a nocturnal example of public transport
                                - one whose concerto début took place when he was barely into his teens

                                Ooooer 'composition of études was hardly a major achievement' = minor key études? Alkan?

                                'one whose composition with a libertarian theme featured on a nocturnal example of public transport' = Rszewski variations on 'The People United Will Never Be Defeated'?

                                'one whose concerto début took place when he was barely into his teens'
                                = Kissin?

                                How am I doing so far, Calibs?

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