Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Sadly, I can only find three parts


what C links

an inspiring pair, Anton and Richard, who were given a bunch of fives 102 years apart;

a bowling alley; and

someone who said that if he listened to too much Wagner, he began to feel like invading Poland?

How do you break up the first one to make two, Caliban?

Well I had thought of the first element as one but it is true that it comprises a pair...

I can't see where the "6 elements" come from that were remarked upon earlier!

I get the odd feeling that at least 3 people know the answer but aren't saying

[subcontrabass]

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I can't see where the "6 elements" come from that were remarked upon earlier!

Three people plus three pieces of music.

[Nick Armstrong]

Three people plus three pieces of music.

I suppose so ... but let's not overthink this! Angle already has the final element.

[Tapiola]

What's happening to this thread today guys and gals? No one wants to state the right answer! It reminds me of Mike Leigh's first film "Bleak Moments", where no one wants to talk to each other for a very long time!

A great film though, with some top music therein (introspective hairy bloke with guitar).

[Angle]

Oh, I have just typed in a reply and it has disappeared.

What I said was that I am not writing because I don't want to give the solution, rather that I just don't know it.

I keep thinking along the lines of CHERRY for some reason, but I cannot think why. You have stumped me, Caliban and the others are keeping quiet

Come on, Tapiola.

[Anna]

Oh, you lot of boys are being just so coy! Subcontra knows it, I knows it, Taps, Angle, mercia? someone spit it out before I go to bed and stop teasing him (actually, it's rather funny)

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, you lot of boys are being just so coy! Subcontra knows it, I knows it, Taps, Angle? someone spit it out before I go to bed!

Come on Anna - you spit it out... then you can gift the next question to someone!

Not cherry, Angle... Why Woody Allen and cherry, out of interest?

[Anna]

Not cherry, Angle... Why Woody Allen and cherry, out of interest?

Now you is teasing us!! Acting all innocent!

[Tapiola]

I honestly don't know the answer to this, though I know what instrument Woody Allen plays.

[Nick Armstrong]

Now you is teasing us!! Acting all innocent!

Honest I'm not! Can't think of a link there

[Angle]

In that case Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio leaps into my mind because that would provide a bowling or SKITTLE alley into the problem

[Nick Armstrong]

In that case Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio leaps into my mind because that would provide a bowling or SKITTLE alley into the problem

BANG! Two down, Angle... A final push...

[Anna]

In that case Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio leaps into my mind because that would provide a bowling or SKITTLE alley into the problem

Exactly.

Woody Allen plays the clarinet

Clarinet Quintet by Mozart. Clarinettist Richard Hosford has an instrument which he recently had re-built to emulate the clarinet of Anton Stadler, whose playing inspired Mozart to compose the quintet.

Mozart The Kegelstatt Trio. The German word Kegelstatt means a place where skittles are being played, a bowling alley

Clainet reeds come in cherry flavour

Edit My brother in law plays the clarinet

[Nick Armstrong]

I had no idea that there are flavoured reeds!!!!

But you are almost there. of course. The C is Clarinet.

The Richard isn't Hosford though... What about the 102 year part of the clue, and the two bunches of fives?

[Angle]

Thanks to Tapiola for the hint to a fact I had overlooked/ Surprising though, don't you think, that Cherry still appears in the solution? If I had followed that route I would still be in Chekhov's orchard.

Good wishes to you and to your brother-in-law.

D might take a little time. I am so taken aback at having got through.