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  • salymap
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5969

    #46
    #44 yes, handsomefortune that's the portrait of Dame Ethel. They just haven't shown the whole thing but she is seated at a piano.


    Can anyone help with what I think is a Windows problem? When I type a link to a message Windows tells me my answer is too short and won't accept it.

    I've tried clicking on 'restore link' three times, but it refuses to.

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37654

      #47
      Originally posted by salymap View Post


      Can anyone help with what I think is a Windows problem? When I type a link to a message Windows tells me my answer is too short and won't accept it.

      I've tried clicking on 'restore link' three times, but it refuses to.
      I had this happened to me a few times, saly. Not sure if this is your problem, but I found that this message appeared when I included my reply to a post inside that poster's quote, or one of his or her quotes. It's easily done: the server seemed to think I hadn't written anything!

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      • amateur51

        #48
        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
        I had this happened to me a few times, saly. Not sure if this is your problem, but I found that this message appeared when I included my reply to a post inside that poster's quote, or one of his or her quotes. It's easily done: the server seemed to think I hadn't written anything!
        Same here salymap and I think that S_A has the answer - always worth checking if this is what you have done accidentally, then cutting you new contributuion and pasting it outside the final [/QUOTE]

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        • salymap
          Late member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5969

          #49
          Thanks both, but then why does a message come up in the bottom left hand corner saying click to Restore, but nothing happens when I click it?

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26528

            #50
            Phenomenal pic, that!!! Thanks!

            And I echo the sentiment above: great thread, sals!

            One of my favourite portraits of all time is Arnold Newman's of Stravinsky (influenced my own photo taking: the subject doesn't always have to be in the centre... Far from it!):


            "...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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            • salymap
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5969

              #51
              I'm waiting for the 'prop' to slip and the piano lid to fall on Stravinsky.

              Not that I want it to.

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                #52
                that photo of Satie and Debussy is rather surreal isn't it - has it been 'altered' in some way? what is that strange looking waxwork between the composers? if it's a reflection in the mirror why can't we see the back of it close to ?

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26528

                  #53
                  Originally posted by salymap View Post
                  I'm waiting for the 'prop' to slip and the piano lid to fall on Stravinsky.

                  Not that I want it to.
                  You are a saly!
                  "...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
                    • 26528

                    #54
                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    that photo of Satie and Debussy is rather surreal isn't it - has it been 'altered' in some way? what is that strange looking waxwork between the composers? if it's a reflection in the mirror why can't we see the back of it close to ?
                    I thought it was a sort of classical bust on the mantlepiece.... But the dressing gown sort of affair plus locket round the neck do look rather real. It appears to be wearing some sort of helmet though... But in the mirror behind it one can just see the top of Igor's bald pate, so I thought he'd been cleverly using the bust on the mantlepiece to take a 'mirror' shot without appearing in it himself...
                    Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 22-05-12, 08:26. Reason: spillong mitsakes
                    "...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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                    • Panjandrum

                      #55
                      I think all is revealed in this image.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26528

                        #56
                        Originally posted by Panjandrum View Post
                        I think all is revealed in this image.

                        Very good, pans! Thank you. Hadn't thought Buddha, I must say, but it's much as I thought
                        "...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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                        • Quarky
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 2657

                          #57
                          This thread has succeeded in making me cross, since firstly I have spent some time attempting to upload images of favourite musicians, but have not succeeded. Suspect the reason is that the images are copyright protected.

                          Secondly everytime I open my internet browser, I go through a shall I/ shan't I post routine. Since the thread has been broadened with reference to Buddha, to stop my suffering I am posting a link to a TV magazine clip, a behind-the-scenes view of my favourite soprano, Carmen Monarcha. Just the first minute or so give a glimpse of a truly lovely person:

                          Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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                          • johncorrigan
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 10354

                            #58
                            Originally posted by Panjandrum View Post
                            I think all is revealed in this image.
                            Looks like the guy on the left (satie?) is smoking his own collar.

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37654

                              #59
                              Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                              Looks like the guy on the left (satie?) is smoking his own collar.
                              Debussy. I thought that too, John - thanks for pointing it out.

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                              • Panjandrum

                                #60
                                Two for the price of one:

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