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  • Northender

    They have indeed, and you have your link - please proceed to explore the bumpier bits of the landscape (here and abroad)!

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    • amateur51

      H is for Hills

      Bax In the Faery Hills
      Oakley and Darwall Hills of the North
      Fain and Webster Black Hills of Dakota
      Weatherly and Coats The Green Hills o’ Somerset if it’s Coates
      Robson The Cheviot Hills

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26540

        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        H is for Hills

        Bax In the Faery Hills
        Oakley and Darwall Hills of the North
        Fain and Webster Black Hills of Dakota
        Weatherly and Coats The Green Hills o’ Somerset if it’s Coates
        Robson The Cheviot Hills
        Cor.... Back on line to be dazzled by a blinder from ammy
        "...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
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          • Dec 2011
          • 22127

          Originally posted by Northender View Post
          They have indeed, and you have your link - please proceed to explore the bumpier bits of the landscape (here and abroad)!
          Fain would I Webster thee with 'Once on a high and windy hill' from 'Love is a many splendored thing', 'Now I shouted from the highest hill' from 'Secret Love' or just 'The Black Hills of Dakota'

          Darwall's 148th was 'Hills of the North rejoice'

          Bax's 'Faery Hills'


          Weatherly and Coat(e)s 'Green Hills of Somerset'

          But I'm too slow with Ammy in full blaze!

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          • cloughie
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            • Dec 2011
            • 22127

            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            H is for Hills

            Bax In the Faery Hills
            Oakley and Darwall Hills of the North
            Fain and Webster Black Hills of Dakota
            Weatherly and Coats The Green Hills o’ Somerset if it’s Coates


            Robson The Cheviot Hills
            Didn't Coats make cotton thread?

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            • Northender

              Ammy - you have indeed conquered all 5 Hills, and provided all the relevant details. Please proceed to 'I'.
              (Cloughie - Coats, as in threads, had nothing to do with Eric Coates, whose father was a doctor).

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              • amateur51

                Cheers Norths!

                What I connects John Roberts, Esplenderoso,and the drummer for The Thing?

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                • cloughie
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                  • Dec 2011
                  • 22127

                  Originally posted by Northender View Post
                  Ammy - you have indeed conquered all 5 Hills, and provided all the relevant details. Please proceed to 'I'.
                  (Cloughie - Coats, as in threads, had nothing to do with Eric Coates, whose father was a doctor).
                  Coats had nothing to do Weatherly if its no e, but with an e in the Hills of Somerset maybe a Cider connection!

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                  • amateur51

                    Nearly three hours gone & nary a nibble ....

                    The I is a forename in the first two, and a family name in the third.

                    There's a modest element of deception in each

                    All three are musical.

                    That'll do for now. I'll be sloping off by 20:30

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                    • amateur51

                      Oh dear, no nibbles at all!

                      For a fresh day ...

                      What about if I tell you that Esplerando is the nickname of a soloist on an upright stringed instrument?

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Oh dear, no nibbles at all!

                        For a fresh day ...

                        What about if I tell you that Esplerando is the nickname of a soloist on an upright stringed instrument?
                        Been pondering but dashing out now!

                        Just think: this time last year, AA closed entirely for a month and a half... Someone'll mosey along by-and-by for a chomp...
                        "...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

                          can't find an online dictionary which thinks that either esplenderoso or esplerando are real words, which makes them difficult to translate
                          upright strings - cello or bass I guess
                          wikipedia says there are four songs and one jazz band called The Thing

                          can't be many I words that can serve as both fore and sur-names

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                          • amateur51

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            can't find an online dictionary which thinks that either esplenderoso or esplerando are real words, which makes them difficult to translate
                            upright strings - cello or bass I guess
                            wikipedia says there are four songs and one jazz band called The Thing

                            can't be many I words that can serve as both fore and sur-names
                            Not in English, that's true mercs

                            Think of an upright piano, mercs

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              so this splendid fellow only plays upright pianos ? is he grand-phobic ?

                              are we talking pianolas ?

                              a Russian player of only upright pianos ?

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                              • Northender

                                Esplendoroso means splendid, magnificent.....

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