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Contents 1 ColinFine 1.1 Bassoon, transposing, and Boehm 1.2 Thanks for the quick translation 1.3 References 1.4 Edinburgh Fringe 1.5 Talk:Tbilisi 1.6 Thanks 1.7 Jig 1.8 United Kingdom Aeronautical Information Publication 1.9 Aryan vs. Aryan race for skinheads 1.10 Bradford German Wikipedia 1.11 Trafalgar Studios 1.12 The Bradford Sweet Poisoning 1.13 Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood 1.14 Dulse 1.15 The Most Conservative Norwegian Dialect 1.16 Impact Theatre Co-operative 1.17 Impact Theatre again

[edit] ColinFine

[edit] Bassoon, transposing, and Boehm

Thanks for the bassoon info on the transposing instrument page. According the the boehm system article, neither bassoon nor oboe uses the Boehm fingering system. The paragraph was meant to only address Boehm system instruments; I was trying to focus the point and limit the discussion of exceptions. I could certainly be off-base, though - while I play single reeds and flute, I know (almost) nothing about double reeds. Special-T 23:54, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

You're right that Bassoon doesn't use the Boehm system, but like almost all woodwind instruments (and like the unkeyed recorders, shawms etc that they are derived from) it has a basic scale that is formed by uncovering the holes one by one. Boehm, Heckel and the rest didn't change this pattern.

I was wondering whether to do something about the extremely odd wording on boehm system: "The bassoon (and contra-bassoon) are unique members of the woodwind family in that they are both fingered with Heckel-system keywork, a descendant of the original Baroque fingering system, as opposed to the otherwise ubiquitous Boehm system."

First, it doesn't mention oboes and cor anglais - I'm not sure whether their keywork is referred to as Boehm or not, but if so it should say so, and if not, the bassoon isn't unique.

Secondly, Boehm is just as much a descendant of the original Baroque fingering system as Heckel. ColinFine 13:46, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Incidentally, your 'Why transpose at all' section really duplicates the 'Reasons for transposing' section further down. Either remove one of them, or merge them. ColinFine 13:48, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments - this is my first stab at editing.

I am far out of my depth in discussions of double-reed instruments, but I understand your point about the bassoon's "home" scale being F instead of C. I also know very little about the historical evolution of instruments, so I have no insight into any Boehm/Heckel discussions, but logically and gramatically I see your point about the Boehm article wording.

I realize that 'Why transpose at all' duplicates other sections - I plan to re-organize the article a little more. I think that addressing different aspects of transposing instruments in a clearer order would make the article easier to understand. I have explained transposing instruments to students (and other musicians...) for years, but explaining it verbally is quite different from explaining it clearly in writing! It can be a tough subject to understand. Thanks again for your help. Special-T 14:03, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the quick translation

I've marked Surender Bhutani for speedy deletion since it is a non-notable person in Polish language. Much appreciated. Dr Debug (Talk) 19:24, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

Hello, I have added three webpages with information about the Church of San Juan of Portomarín, one of them from the Instituto Cervantes. If you find it satisfactory, would you be so kind to remove the unreference tag? Thank you for your help, --Garcilaso 11:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Done. You didn't need to ask me to do it - you could do it yourself - but thanks for asking. ColinFine 20:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edinburgh Fringe

fyi - as nobody else entered into a discussion, I have now dutifully changed the section on venues. BAK 06:30, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Tbilisi

Hi there. I saw you have restored the paragraph on Talk:Tbilisi. I had removed it before because it looked very much like vandalism. It was written by an established POV-pusher User:ArmenianNY who posted his comment under the name of another Wikipedian, namely User:Ellsworth. Please check the page's history [1]. Thanks, Kober 04:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Dear Colin, I just wanted to thank you for your vote and constructive comments regarding the article IPA2. I wish you success and all the best. -DrMoslehi 22 September 2006, 03:47 (UTC+3:30)

Dear Colin,

I really did not get the impression you had wanted to keep my article and soothe my feeling, etc. I just thanked for the time you spent giving your opinion (to contribute to Wikipedia) and the instructions you gave (to guide others how to contribute). In case of Shashank, I just thanked to be grateful and when I used 'fan-style' I used the exact description. I did not give my opinion on whether showing fan-style support is good or bad (although you might think it as a kind of confirmation which in this case I really did not mean). -DrMoslehi 26 September 2006, 04:08 (UTC+3:30)

[edit] Jig

The sentence claimed something without any back-up whatsoever. WP could be dotted with such statements if they were allowed to pass. Obviously nearly all words have connections in various other languages. It wasn't clear in the sentence whether it was the dance or it was the word, which was being referred to. My edit can be improved upon. MelForbes 11:23, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Agree, it might be better to delete the sentence entirely. I was trying to avoid that situation thinking that in the future an editor might expand on the particular reference with a clearer explanation. I'll try to get some sources at the library that might help with the article. MelForbes 11:59, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I think I know the particular Germanic dance in question. It's not the same as the Celtic jig. MelForbes 12:13, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] United Kingdom Aeronautical Information Publication

It was originally done that way because I understood that links to references that required registration (free or not) were to be avoided. That was compounded by people removing information or putting an unsourced tag on because there was no reference at all. Did you see the comment at User talk:Wangi#United Kingdom Aeronautical Information Publication. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I didn't think about it at the time but it's something that a lot of people are guilty of, assuming that because we know what we are writing about then everybody else does too. A lot of airport articles use abbreviations like OLS, DME, NDB etc but never spell them out. It's not just confined to airport articles though. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aryan vs. Aryan race for skinheads

Colin, if you're still interested in the above, I replied to your comment on that Humanities Reference Desk query (already archived!). -- Cheers, Deborahjay 08:28, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bradford German Wikipedia

Would you please check this?

"Der Leiter der NSDAP Auslands-Organisation (AO), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, wurde 1903 in Bradford geboren."

You will find it in the German Text under Bedeutende Persönlichkeiten. I think it could be wrong. Trolls maybe? Greetings --82.83.238.124 01:05, 10 January 2007 (UTC) Gabriel-Royce (German Wikipedia)

[edit] Trafalgar Studios

Re: the rude edit summary you wrote in conjunction with the unnecessary change you made to this article, "legitimate" is not a "bizarre" word in describing a theatre. As defined in the dictionary, "legitimate theatre designates one presenting professionally produced stage plays, as distinguished from motion pictures, vaudeville, etc." It's a common term. Additionally, there is no reed for a "reference" template, as the external link leads to the Official Website, which was the reference. Thank you. SFTVLGUY2 20:32, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Bradford Sweet Poisoning

Finally got around to writing it - care to give a critique?--Crestville 17:40, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

It seems to be back on it's old page now. I put the links there out of habit and I've been wanting to learn how to merge footnotes so that's all very helpful. You're right, the official name is the Kirkgate Center and I'll change it, though in my defence I always call it the Arndale center. I'm actually in Notingham now so Ican't check Bradford Library just now. Massive thanks though.--Crestville 15:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood

Your bot has made a number of spelling and punctuation changes to this page, but -

• Most of the spelling changes are in old quotations. I haven't checked the originals, but I have no doubt at least some of them were correctly transcribed.
• Furthermore, it seems to replace '...' with '. ..', which is plain wrong.

Yours, --ColinFine 16:17, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Colin. I've made note of the spellings in the quotes on that page. Also, you're quite right about the bot introducing spurious spaces into ellipses; this happened as an inadvertent side effect to a change I made to the bot recently. I've fixed it now. Thanks again. CmdrObot 20:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

21:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)Osborne (talk)== Topdog == Good day Colin. Thanks for your comments. I started searching for other references to Top/under dog and saw pits, so far without any luck. I note that the term 'dog' was widely used for the 'hinge' on hinged structures on ships - port holes, etc. I will keep on digging. Any help would be much appreciated. Rosser 09:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dulse

You referred to Rhodymenia palmata...it is indeed a synonym of Palmaria palmata (dulse) An old synonym. Old synonyms are usually noted in (brackets). Sometimes there ccan be several or even more synonyms. You may find "Algaebase" interesting ...I wll return to this note when I'v checked the website. Osborne (talk) 21:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Most Conservative Norwegian Dialect

Yes, some dialects are more conservative in some areas then others, but taking all things considered, which is the most conservative?70.74.35.144 (talk) 08:35, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Impact Theatre Co-operative

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[edit] Impact Theatre again

Hi Colin. Remember me, the Impact Theatre Co-operative guy. You will have seen the notice above. Is there anything that we can do to stop the article from getting deleted? I have no way of establishing notability beyond what is on the web, and as we discovered earlier there is not much to go on. (I just had another look.) There were many newspaper articles on the company at the time, but they are not on the papers' websites. I would have thought the Hoban connection itself would have been enough to pacify the deletionists, but obviously not. Any thoughts? Best wishes, --Richardrj ^{talk email} 08:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Great work - thanks very much. The more I read about Impact, the luckier I feel to have seen even just two of their productions (when I was just 16 or 17!). --Richardrj ^{talk email} 21:04, 16 February 2008 (UTC)