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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,541
    Prussian blue: named after the Prussian army uniforms.

    A lot of the colour names arise in the 18th and 19th century with the advent of industrially produced chemical dyes and pigments so as much product names as anything else.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,162
    Easyjet orange.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Electric blue comes from the colour of ionised argon gas when you pass a current through it iirc
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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,815
    First.Aspect said:

    Easyjet orange.

    Not Wiggle orange any more.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    Wigglegreen.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,149
    Rain bow rainbow
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,162
    Gap beige.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,337
    First.Aspect said:

    Gap beige.


    I wonder why a town in SE France would have given its name to that colour...
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    briantrumpet said:

    First.Aspect said:

    Gap beige.


    I wonder why a town in SE France would have given its name to that colour...
    Colour of summer grass?

    (Just playing along with the silliness).
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Not surprising but still.

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  • de_sisti
    de_sisti Posts: 1,283
    12/8 time signature is similar to 4/4 time signature.

    It's extremely difficult for me to play a score when there are multiple quaver and crotchet rests included. :s
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,337
    de_sisti said:

    12/8 time signature is similar to 4/4 time signature.

    It's extremely difficult for me to play a score when there are multiple quaver and crotchet rests included. :s


    12/8 is a really hard time signature to learn & read, for the reason you've mentioned... it just looks like random series of quavers and quaver rests, with the odd crotchet thrown in to confuse you.

    Good examples of 12/8 are Everybody Wants To Rule The World, and That's Life.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,813
    edited May 2023
    I know nothing about music in terms of making it, I had piano lessons as a kid, but I don't think that counts. Can I just say that I'm really glad some people do get it as their output makes my life so much happier.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    veronese68 said:

    I know nothing about music in terms of making it, I had piano lessons as a kid, but I don't think that counts. Can I just say that I'm really glad some people do get it as there output makes my life so much happier.

    Well said, and put! I concur.
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  • de_sisti
    de_sisti Posts: 1,283
    edited May 2023

    For our upcoming concert as part of the Cheltenham Music Festival, our orchestra is playing a compilation of Bert Bacharach hits. One of them is Close to You. I'm finally getting used to it (although not totally polished it off yet).

    I was counting 12 beats in each bar, very slowly indeed. Each beat could be a crotchet (2 beats), a quaver (1 beat), a crotchet rest (2 beats), or a quaver rest (1 beat).

    I was doing this by counting out the beats aloud. I was getting there. I then used the metronome on my Korg TM-60 Tuner, starting off at 52, increasing it to a tempo I felt the orchestra played it at in our last rehearsal.

    It's the first 22 bars that is causing the slight headache (a combination of pizz and arco).

    After the first full bar of rest I can feel the mood of the piece and follow it quite well.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,337
    de_sisti said:

    For our upcoming concert as part of the Cheltenham Music Festival, our orchestra is playing a compilation of Bert Bacharach hits. One of them is Close to You. I'm finally getting used to it (although not totally polished it off yet).

    I was counting 12 beats in each bar, very slowly indeed. Each beat could be a crotchet (2 beats), a quaver (1 beat), a crotchet rest (2 beats), or a quaver rest (1 beat).

    I was doing this by counting out the beats aloud. I was getting there. I then used the metronome on my Korg TM-60 Tuner, starting off at 52, increasing it to a tempo I felt the orchestra played it at in our last rehearsal.

    It's the first 22 bars that is causing the slight headache (a combination of pizz and arco).

    After the first full bar of rest I can feel the mood of the piece and follow it quite well.


    The skill is to be able to see the dotted crotchet as the pulse, and the quavers as the 'tumti - tumti - tiddely' subdivision of that pulse. It's worth marking up your part with big vertical lines where the four beats are.

    Actually, to be fair to you, I see that Close To You is more normally written in 4/4, but with instructions to play swing quavers, and the odd triplet written in... it's actually much easier to read that way, but classical musicians sometimes (well, often) are rubbish at playing swing quavers in 4/4.
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  • de_sisti
    de_sisti Posts: 1,283
    edited May 2023
    briantrumpet said:

    It's worth marking up your part with big vertical lines where the four beats are.

    That's exactly what I have done.


  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Saw this stat which is remarkable:

    one in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday
    That's a lot of parents burying their children. One per class...!

    The average American has the same life expectancy as the lowest life expectancy in the UK (Blackpool)
    That would be remarkable if it was true. Average at birth life expectancy in a few grim parts of the UK, Blackpool included is mid 50s. US as a whole is 76 or 79 depending on your source.

    Still surprisingly low, given the UKs is still 81/83 for men/women.

    Wonder how that gender related statistic will last....

    Ok I don't follow this thread closely but life expectancy in Blackpool is ~25 years lower than the UK average !?

    I'm genuinely shocked and appalled - I'd have guessed 4 or 5 years maybe but 25+!!
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    DeVlaeminck said:

    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Saw this stat which is remarkable:

    one in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday
    That's a lot of parents burying their children. One per class...!

    The average American has the same life expectancy as the lowest life expectancy in the UK (Blackpool)
    That would be remarkable if it was true. Average at birth life expectancy in a few grim parts of the UK, Blackpool included is mid 50s. US as a whole is 76 or 79 depending on your source.

    Still surprisingly low, given the UKs is still 81/83 for men/women.

    Wonder how that gender related statistic will last....

    Ok I don't follow this thread closely but life expectancy in Blackpool is ~25 years lower than the UK average !?

    I'm genuinely shocked and appalled - I'd have guessed 4 or 5 years maybe but 25+!!
    You are right.

    https://www.blackpooljsna.org.uk/Blackpool-Profile/Life-Expectancy.aspx

    The figure in the 50s is the healthy life expectancy. The equivalent for England is in the 60s.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    TheBigBean said:


    ...
    The figure in the 50s is the healthy life expectancy. The equivalent for England is in the 60s.

    How depressing is that? I am realistically looking at the 80s going by family history and my comparatively more healthy lifestyle.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    DeVlaeminck said:

    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Saw this stat which is remarkable:

    one in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday
    That's a lot of parents burying their children. One per class...!

    The average American has the same life expectancy as the lowest life expectancy in the UK (Blackpool)
    That would be remarkable if it was true. Average at birth life expectancy in a few grim parts of the UK, Blackpool included is mid 50s. US as a whole is 76 or 79 depending on your source.

    Still surprisingly low, given the UKs is still 81/83 for men/women.

    Wonder how that gender related statistic will last....

    Ok I don't follow this thread closely but life expectancy in Blackpool is ~25 years lower than the UK average !?

    I'm genuinely shocked and appalled - I'd have guessed 4 or 5 years maybe but 25+!!
    The 81/83 number is average life expectancy for people at age 65
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    Sweet faced actress Audrey Hepburn had a much more daring past than expected.
    Early life section.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,056
    edited May 2023
    Apparently there's a Welsh speaking community in Patagonia, going back to 1865, when some Welsh pioneers set off on the ship Mimosa.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65615709
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  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,122
    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    Apparently there's a Welsh speaking community in Patagonia, going back to 1865, when some Welsh pioneers set off on the ship Mimosa.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65615709

    You’ve not heard of Dai Gaucho!


  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,056
    secretsqirrel said:

    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    Apparently there's a Welsh speaking community in Patagonia, going back to 1865, when some Welsh pioneers set off on the ship Mimosa.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65615709

    You’ve not heard of Dai Gaucho!


    Nope.

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    My ex landlord of some years ago attended Welsh/English speaking private school in Patagonia. He's Argentinian through and through has a perfect English accent.

    Though, in 2011, the Argentinian govt. put a lid on the Welsh schools.
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    The actor that played George Roper (George and Mildred) is still alive. He's 90 - so 42ish when he played the character in Man About The House.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    DeVlaeminck said:

    The actor that played George Roper (George and Mildred) is still alive. He's 90 - so 42ish when he played the character in Man About The House.

    That is a scary perspective. I distinctly remember him as being old.
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,056
    edited May 2023
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  • veronese68
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    pblakeney said:

    DeVlaeminck said:

    The actor that played George Roper (George and Mildred) is still alive. He's 90 - so 42ish when he played the character in Man About The House.

    That is a scary perspective. I distinctly remember him as being old.
    Indeed, scarier still is that Clive Dunn was 48 when cast as Corporal Jones in Dad's Army.
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