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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26539

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    No takers? Nobody wants to take a punt?
    Chipping away...

    Hmmm: http://images.travelpod.com/users/gi...-your-boat.jpg ??
    "...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

      Or rather: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ce_gondola.jpg ?
      "...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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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26539

          Thinking (no wiki) of:

          Liszt's Lugubrious Gondola (late piano piece)
          Sullivan's Gondoliers
          Mendelssohn wrote sort of Gondola-y Songs without Words, didn't he...
          "...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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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Thinking (no wiki) of:

            Liszt's Lugubrious Gondola (late piano piece)
            That would work (especially for someone with Liszt-aversion and no Wiki!), but I was thinking about a piano piece from "years" before

            Sullivan's Gondoliers


            Mendelssohn wrote sort of Gondola-y Songs without Words, didn't he...
            - specifically one called Gondolier's Song ...

            ... which would take you back to your Liszt "pilgrimage"
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26539

              Oh blimey. Presumably something from the Années de Pélerinage in Italy... Just watching the end of my recording of the Grand Prix from this morning, double tasking is all I can manage, without advanced Liszt research...
              "...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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              • cloughie
                Full Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 22127

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                Does anyone understand anything that's going on in that "cryptic Mahler" thread??!
                No. I'm not very good on cryptic stuff!

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26539

                  Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                  No. I'm not very good on cryptic stuff!

                  Yes, your forte is providing high-concentrate clues rather than cryptic ones!

                  On which note, having kept the seat warm with ferney's 'joker G', the J is yours...
                  "...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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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22127

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                    Yes, your forte is providing high-concentrate clues rather than cryptic ones!

                    On which note, having kept the seat warm with ferney's 'joker G', the J is yours...
                    Is the G* all done and dusted then?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26539

                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      Is the G* all done and dusted then?
                      There's a spare Gondola floating around somewhere but I don't think it need hinder you
                      "...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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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22127

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        There's a spare Gondola floating around somewhere but I don't think it need hinder you
                        The J link is with water, children or on their own.

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          Is the G* all done and dusted then?
                          Yup!

                          Mendelssohn Gondolier's Song from the Piano "Songs Without Words"
                          Liszt's ditto from Vol 2 of the Years of Pilgrimage (Italy)
                          And Sullivan (& WSG) The Gondoliers (a comic opera based on a sexually transmitted disease).

                          Well done Cali and over to you, cloughie!
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26539

                            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                            The J link is with water, children or on their own.
                            Not getting anywhere with this: too tightly packed for me! Any clues please?
                            "...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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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              Last night I wondered if "on their own" could be tod as in German "death" as in Kindertotenlieder. Then I fell asleep....
                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • cloughie
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22127

                                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                                Last night I wondered if "on their own" could be tod as in German "death" as in Kindertotenlieder. Then I fell asleep....
                                Think French.

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