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QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Mol - on the new tablet Posted Jun 26, 2013
Cops in those days carried walkie-talkie radio type things. So, did he go to the hardware store because his wasn't working properly and he thought it needed new batteries? Perhaps it was whistling ...
Radios makes me think of frequencies, musical notes have frequencies and if a piano was 'acting up' that suggests it was tuned to the wrong frequency *or* that atmospheric conditions (damp perhaps) were affecting the strings and therefore the notes.
But 'tuned to the wrong frequency' brings me back to radios ...
Mol
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 26, 2013
//he thought it needed new batteries?//
Have a DGI +1, "it" being the operative pronoun.
//Radios makes me think of frequencies, musical notes have frequencies and if a piano was 'acting up' that suggests it was tuned to the wrong frequency //
DGI +1
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 26, 2013
The QI tent of mystery and intrigue is open for business, I shall mostly be cooking dinner and tidying my flat, but I can mutli-task.
Sure this one has been peculating through your brain and you're just itching to get to the answer?
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Baron Grim Posted Jun 26, 2013
Wait... I'm sure this red herring, but there was a music store in Boulder, Colorado in the late 70's run by one Fred McConnell who's daughter Mindy befriended a stranded alien...
Nanu...
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 26, 2013
Mork and Mindy?
I did consider putting a klaxon on that (set, as it was in Boulder, Colorado) but I decided against it. You escape. Just.
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Mu Beta Posted Jun 26, 2013
Did he, perchance, mistake that very high note for a scream?
Especially in a provincial orchestra.
B
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 26, 2013
The high note has something to do with it, but it was not mistaken for a scream. You are still looking for a caper aren't you Mu? Not everything is film noir, y'know?
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Geggs Posted Jun 26, 2013
Was there something about Boston that could lead you to find a group of Bostonians suspicious?
Geggs
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Mu Beta Posted Jun 26, 2013
I confess.
It was the Marlowe-esque way in which you told the story.
B
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 26, 2013
No, I picked the orchestra more or less at random.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 26, 2013
Thank you, Mu. Hi Praise indeed. When I told my little tale to the person who clued me into this last week he said "you got all that from this? Wow."
If inside every person is a novel, I suspect mine is a book of riddles called "ha, they'll never figure this out!"
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
shagbark Posted Jun 26, 2013
It sounds like he wants to bring a soprano back to the hardware store.
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 26, 2013
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
shagbark Posted Jun 26, 2013
post 42 said he thought it needed new batteries?//
Have a DGI +1, "it" being the operative pronoun.
so something (label it x ) used by an orchestra ran on batteries
How about a tape recorder.
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Mu Beta Posted Jun 26, 2013
Either that, or I've worked out how he made the soprano hit that high note...
B
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shagbark Posted Jun 26, 2013
did he phone the hardware store from the foyer?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 26, 2013
Mol was referring to his walkie Talkie, I was saying it's not the walkie talkie.
Nor is a tape recorder involved, nor (just to help you) was "it" (the thing requiring batteries) used by the orchestra.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 26, 2013
QI - Whistle for a Soprano
Mu Beta Posted Jun 26, 2013
Hang on. Was it an orchestra, or a piano used during rehearsal?
I find it unlikely that it could be both.
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- 41: Mol - on the new tablet (Jun 26, 2013)
- 42: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 26, 2013)
- 43: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 26, 2013)
- 44: Baron Grim (Jun 26, 2013)
- 45: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 26, 2013)
- 46: Mu Beta (Jun 26, 2013)
- 47: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 26, 2013)
- 48: Geggs (Jun 26, 2013)
- 49: Mu Beta (Jun 26, 2013)
- 50: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 26, 2013)
- 51: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 26, 2013)
- 52: shagbark (Jun 26, 2013)
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