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Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:37 am

CharlesT wrote:It's not Carronade is it?


No, but you have 5 correct letters as I try and shepherd along.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:37 am

To help a bit more, Sgurr and Charles have 6 of the 7 letters of the answer. . Coincidentally 6 is is the result of multiplying 2 by 3. 5 is the result of adding 2 and 3 together.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:02 pm

just noticed this - a daft random guess - chanter (of bagpipes)

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:09 pm

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:just noticed this - a daft random guess - chanter (of bagpipes)

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It could probably played on the bagpipes although I have never heard it done that way but it's not the chanter. BTW you have 3 letters correct. Have a 2 nd go
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:38 pm

Ciobair. (Can only think that people are dying for a performance of Shaun the Sheep in Gaelic. )
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:50 pm

For those that wondered why I had picked this word, Rohan did talk about shepherding us along, though I now realise it probably hasn't appeared in f ormer quizzes.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:14 pm

Sgurr wrote:Ciobair. (Can only think that people are dying for a performance of Shaun the Sheep in Gaelic. )



Lordy, lordy, I thought I was making it obvious but no-one is getting close . My attempts at being a shepherd are clearly not very good. One of the correct letters in Ciobair occurs 2 times, there are 3 correct letters in all but Ciobair is wrong and Shaun the Sheep is most definitely wrong (only 1 correct letter in there!)
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:17 am

With approaching zero confidence, Coronach.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:28 am

CharlesT wrote:With approaching zero confidence, Coronach.


I was just about to try cronach (variant spelling of CharlesT’s guess). People would be “dying” for a performance of it!

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:15 am

Okay.
If these clues don't produce an answer then I will do a picture clue

C refers to a well known piece of music.
2) It was named after the place it was composed
3) Initially it was attributed to DG who the original composer had consulted on the harmony .
The original composer was JSI
Words of the piece were written by Scot JM, adapting a much earlier "verse" by another D
It is used as the theme tune to a well known comedy programme
Cronach contains four correct letters. The C obviously appears 2 times but the 3 others just appear once
Coronach also contains four correct letters with 2 appearing twice

I realise I may have confused people in the earlier clues with my extensive use of numerals. I have tried to rectify that in these clues.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:59 am

Is this Crimond, Jessie Seymour Irvine? Neither of which I have ever heard of.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:25 am

You just beat me to it. Crimond is the tune for the 23rd Psalm, The Lord's My Shepherd, which you probably have heard. DG is David Grant, who is also credited with the tune. Don't know what the comedy programme is, or who JM or the second D are. Surprised rohan suggests it 'probably could' be played on the bagpipes - isn't it a well-known 'pipe tune'?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:33 am

CharlesT wrote:Is this Crimond, Jessie Seymour Irvine? Neither of which I have ever heard of.


Hurrah!
As a non religious person, I have always recognised Crimond as the name of the music that accompanies the words of the 23rd Psalm, The Lord is my Shepherd. I'm not sure when I first knew that, maybe I have been to too many funerals. I do confess, however, that until I was checking my facts about Crimond Church Clock, (a previous puzzle here from July 2021) I wasn't aware of the composer, a young organist whose father was the minister at Crimond Church. I thought my repeated use of the numbers 2 and 3 and reference to shepherding would be obvious, it being a very popular psalm attributed to King David and adapted into a hymn by James Montgomery. Maybe I should have used the Vicar of Dibley as a clue. NB David Grant who was originally credited with the composition assisted with the harmonisation and it wasn't until the 1940s that a letter from Jessie's sister came to light and she was finally attributed as the composer.
The other puzzle that mentions Crimond was also solved by you, Charles in January 2019, it being the airfield that Jim Clark began his racing career but you have clearly forgotten that you had heard of the place! For a small place it has a lot going on.

Over to you Charles.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:39 am

Glengavel wrote:You just beat me to it. Crimond is the tune for the 23rd Psalm, The Lord's My Shepherd, which you probably have heard. DG is David Grant, who is also credited with the tune. Don't know what the comedy programme is, or who JM or the second D are. Surprised rohan suggests it 'probably could' be played on the bagpipes - isn't it a well-known 'pipe tune'?


I said "probably" because I haven't heard it on the pipes (or not knowingly) and when I googled it as a bagpipe tune, it didn't produce anything.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby CharlesT » Thu Sep 23, 2021 11:09 am

My ability to forget things is equal to my ignorance of hymns. I have a singing voice akin to a Corncrake which let me off the hook there.

JM used the AP to let EG resound.
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