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Those clever chaps in Japan have patented a musical toilet, equipped with stereo speakers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7489776.stmReaders are invited to suggest pieces of music which the manufacturers should provide for this unique musical niche-market? |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #1 on: 11:15:32, 07-07-2008 » |
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I'd suggest that anything written by a certain German composer who lived from 1587 - 1684 might fit the bill admirably.
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« Reply #2 on: 11:18:30, 07-07-2008 » |
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Alvin Lucier: I am Sitting in a Room.
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pianola
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« Reply #3 on: 12:58:16, 07-07-2008 » |
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No particular pieces, but Grainger springs immediately to mind. Pointing Percy at the Porcelain is always effective (though I used to have lodgers who failed to live up to expectations in this regard).
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pianola
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« Reply #4 on: 13:02:06, 07-07-2008 » |
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Actually, there is a good deal of nineteenth-century salon music by Ludwig Schytte.
And I note that, in Haydn's Creation, Uriel introduces the fourth day. He did well to wait that long.
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« Reply #5 on: 13:02:34, 07-07-2008 » |
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Englebert Humperdinck - Please release me.
I'm so sorry...
Cloakroom-bound...
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #7 on: 13:24:57, 07-07-2008 » |
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Honestly! If, on the R3 Boards of all places, you have to descend to lavatory humour then I can only say the writing is on the wall.
Purcell: Come Ye Sons, O Fart Away
Elgar: And o'er the penal waters, as they roll, I poise thee, and I lower thee
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« Reply #8 on: 13:25:36, 07-07-2008 » |
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Knussen - The Hums and Songs of Winnie the Pooh
Sullivan - The Mikado (especially bits with Nanki Poo)
David Mann - In the wee small hours of the morning
Holst - The Planets (Uranus)
Stravinsky - Symphony in Three Movements
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #9 on: 13:25:50, 07-07-2008 » |
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'I want to break free' A  |
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Well, there you are.
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pianola
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« Reply #10 on: 13:28:02, 07-07-2008 » |
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I've been trying to hold back, but it's no good - I have to tell this story here.
About 25 years ago, I visited Geoffrey Higgins, a retired music teacher (Harrow) who lived in the west country, had been a pupil of John Ireland, and who had reviewed pianola rolls for the local paper in Bristol during the 1920s.
In the '30s, he told me, he had visited a lady friend of his in Devon, and during the course of a very pleasant evening, he had felt the need to use "the little room," as he put it. "Oh, Geoffrey, it's outside," had come the reply, "Do watch your step in the dark."
Geoffrey had found the hut, not such an rare form of outbuilding in those days, and with some relief had sat down and "committed himself," - again his expression. As his eyes had become accustomed to the evening light coming through the half-moon cut-out, he realised to his horror that there was no paper to be seen. Pondering on this dilemma, he eventually realised that, high up on the wall were the remains of an old pianola roll, hanging on a nail.
He explained that he had done the best he could, and had eventually returned inside the house. "Oh, Geoffrey," his hostess had exclaimed, "I didn't realise that you were going to be some time. I completely forgot to put out any tissues."
"That's quite all right, my dear," Mr Higgins had replied; "I'm just sorry that I took such a while. I was looking for a few bars' rest."
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #11 on: 13:50:41, 07-07-2008 » |
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Upset tummy?
Perhaps RVW's The Running Set might provide the answer....
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« Reply #12 on: 14:00:18, 07-07-2008 » |
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Those ipod users amongst us might like one of these, though it sadly seems to have been discontinued.  |
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« Reply #13 on: 14:07:01, 07-07-2008 » |
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In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
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« Reply #14 on: 14:39:33, 07-07-2008 » |
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In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
See reply #8  Tommo PS Hamish McCunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood |
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