"Cock & Bull Story ~

"Cock & Bull Story ~

A corruption of a concocted and bully story.
The catch ~ pennies hawked about the streets
Are still called cocks ~ I.e. concocted things.

Bully is the Danish bullen (exaggerated),
Our bull ~ rush (an exaggerated rush), bull ~ frog, etc.

The French equivalents are ~
Faire un coq =E0 l'=E2ne and un conie de ma m=E8re l'oie
[a mother goose tale]."

~ E. Cobham Brewer,
From "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"
1898.

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Blog, I'll warrant ye, or dog? Who knows. Pass the grog!
But if ye see me lost pup, please bring that scurvy dog home!
I got Leon a brand-new bone, with a chest full a' booty.
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http://journals.aol.com/virginiaz/DreamingofLeonardo

"Icon, half yours,
Half mine ...

But what are years,
If not yours ~ ?"
~ Alfred Corn

"Cock and Bottle ~

A public ~ house sign, meaning draught
And bottled ale may be had on the premises.

The 'cock' here means the tap.
It does not mean
'The Cork and Bottle.'"

~ E. Cobham Brewer,
From "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"
[1898]

The Theory of The Proportions Musique,
The Eternal Mystique ...

And The Study of The Linear Perspective
And The Architectonic
Proportions ~

Expressions of The Mathematical
Sublime chimes ...

May The Musical Instruments play Beauty
May The Strings accord Harmony
May The Vibrato express Virtue
May The Chords sound Truth

May The Horns beckon The Hounds
Prancing Wildely ~

May The Woodwinds waft
Gently, brazenly, shamelessly,
Boldly

The forest
Awake this night."
~ Le Bergere

"Nice hills though."
~ Cp

"Adopt
A greyhound."
~ Twittering

"During The Hour
Of The Cocktails and The Hors d'oeuvres.

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~ * The Recorder
Woods ...
From Lazer's Early Music * ~

"The design of an instrument is the most important quality for
determination of instrument tone. That being said, the type of wood an
instrument is made of does have an affect on its tone quality.

This is due to the different machining properties of different woods,
or even different pieces of the same wood.

A bore or ceiling chamfer or the window edge might be smoother or
sharper on a fine-grained, easy-to-machine piece of wood. This will
definitely affect how the instrument plays as well as its tonal
characteristics.

In general, maple and sycamore (white) and pearwood (pinkish brown) are
less expensive because they lend themselves to machine production and
originate in temperate climates. They are usually impregnated with wax
to help preserve and stabilize the soft wood.

Pearwood usually gives a more vibrant tone with greater presence than
maple. Boxwood (yellowish when not stained) comes in two types,
European and non-European. Although their characteristics are similar
when made into a recorder, the much more expensive European variety is
to be preferred despite the frequent occurrence of knotty blemishes.

In the best instruments the characteristic tone is warm and full.
Boxwood tends to play stronger and clearer than maple or pear.
Tropical hardwoods were little used in the 18th century, but are valued
now for their stronger sound with more overtones, as well as their
durability and beauty.

Olive has a more open sound, somewhere between pearwood and rosewoods
in overtone quality.

Plum tends toward the stronger, clearer side, but with less strength or
overtones than olive or the rosewoods.

The Dalbergia species contains palisander and rosewood, both of whom
comes in many varieties and colors, from almost black to light
red-brown.

Palisander and rosewood instruments are strong and rich in overtones.

Tulipwood, another Dalbergia, is similar, but with a more striking
grain. The characteristic tone is more edgy than boxwood, the overtones
tending towards oboe tone.

Ebony and grenadilla are black and heavy, and the tone more silvery and
flute like. The block or plug is almost universally made of cedar,
although Mollenhauer now uses a ceramic composite on some of its
instruments."

http://www.lazarsearlymusic.com/

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"Morning Prayer ~

New every morning is the love
Our wakening and uprising prove;
Through sleep and darkness kindly brought,
Restored to life and pow'r and thought.

New mercies,
Each returning day ..."

~ John Keble,
19th C

"Alleluia, A dog ~ !
The earth, home for our creatures,
For us, too,
Come let us adore a dog,

Praise the earth ~ !
Alleluia ~ !"
~ Acacia