The Manufacture of a Texas Sonata

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Allow me, in count Robert's absence, to mount the musicology podium and announce that Anton Eberl was the same person as Mozart (who staged his Vienna death, vanished from Vienna for a while to serve as Nissen in Tripoly, 1801-1807, and attempted to publish his own biography later)...

...So the question is: Where (what part of Germany) was Mozart 1791-1796?

Yanni,

In the words of Arte Johnson…”Very eeenteresting”.

I read the Wiki entry regarding Eberl, however, Wiki fails to mention the Texas connection. According to my sources, Eberl had a daughter named Angelina who managed to flee Europe, just ahead of Napolean’s return in 1815 and head to the U.S. In 1814, Angelina arrived in New Orleans in the midst of heated battle between the American’s and the British:

“Battle of New Orleans”
(No offense to my friends across the foam)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxB42cjHTGg

Angelina eventually settled in Austin and altered her last name to Ebberly in order to avoid the paparazzi. It should be mentioned that Angelina Ebberly played a small, but notable role in the history of the Republic. Here is an excerpt from “The Raven” (biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James) :

“…In the fall the capitol was transferred to Washington-on-the-Brazos as a compromise, and Buck Pettis went to Austin for the Archives. The citizens sheared the mane and tail of Captain Pettis’s horse and sent the rider back without the papers.
The President dispatched Captain Thomas Smith to remove the records secretly. At midnight on December thirtieth (1842) Mrs. Angelina Ebberly, a boarding house mistress whose table had been depleted by the turn of affairs, saw a wagon being loaded in an alley back of the land office. She repaired to Congress Avenue where a six pound gun had been kept loaded with grape (shot) since the days of the Lamar Indian Wars. Turning the muzzle toward the land office, she blazed away. The shot perforated the land office and around the town.”

Now to answer your question; "...So the question is: Where (what part of Germany) was Mozart 1791-1796?"

According to my sources, Mozart returned to Bonn in 1791, to comfort the ailing Johann van Beethoven, the patron who was responsible for much of Mozart’s manufactured notoriety. Please refer to the following excerpts from the “Sonata”:

...Coronado’s music eventually found its way back to Salzburg Austria, falling into the hands of Johann van Beethoven. It was Johann, who had a proclivity toward manufacturing great composers (such as is own son) that took interest in a young street urchin named Mozart. Johann had Mozart copy Coronado’s music so it would appear as though it came from his own hand and the rest, as they say, is history!”...

“Beautiful flames in shades of blue and green” flicker on the ceiling and walls that frame the hearth, breaking up the dim yellow wash of the faltering artificial light.
Illuminati perhaps? ...
...Hello all, or to the one or two reading this. ... A new name had surfaced that made the “Terrier” quite agitated. The Dumas boys heard the name “Hummel” mentioned several times adding that he was “boastful”. Terrier had never heard of this Hummel in his Coronado line of research. I learned from the Terrier that Hummel had become quite successful in manufacturing porcelain figurines that served as a front to transfer bootlegged copies of Coronado’s music inside.
My mother was very fond of Hummel dolls. I purchased one for her many years ago while passing through Koln.



Until now, I would never have fathomed that Hummel; a master at manufacturing porcelain dolls also had a hand in the manufacture of Mozart.

...Herman and his hermit’s joined a pilgrimage to St. _______ in Bonn Germany. While in Bonn, the minstrels met up with Johann von Beethoven and Hummel. Hummel and Beethoven handed over a sack of porcelain dolls to the unsuspecting hermits, knowing that Salzburg was the next stop for the pilgrimage...

...In the meantime, I better stoke up the flames of my fire to reduce the amount of smoke. There’s a group of Freemasons doing some pro bono work on my neighbor’s wall. It would seem that the stench suspended in the cold morning air intermingled with the hoarfrost, is causing them some discomfort.

Johann eventually died in Bonn on December 18, 1792. Mozart quickly composed a requiem for the funeral Mass from a few scraps of Coronado’s music he found among the Hummel dolls on Beethoven’s bureau. Mozart remained in Bonn for several years in an effort to expunge all evidence of Coronado’s music and dispel the suspicions held among the Bonnian’s

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Litnet public service announcement:
It appears that the shaman’s ash ritual had little effect. The Mozartgeist has been resuscitated along with a new following.

Gilliatt

[yanni]

Originally Posted by ERS
And Cocchi also had a chess player alias? My, our good Italian appears to have had more identities than there are Chins in the Beijing White Pages…

For a hornblower with a lawyer flare, you are obviously confused:

Composer -chess player Rousseau's chess match with David Hume is legendary already and I have no doubt that Gioachino Cocchi and general Washington enjoyed the game too.

Jefferson certainly did (study Philidor and joined his chess society while in Paris) but there is no record of ever playing with him.

http://www.chess.com/article/view/us...ents-and-chess

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

From gas to hot air, the great greenmailer was gambling on wind for his next strategic move on the board, but found himself in checkmate with China. Now the King wiles away the waning years shuffling around the board postponing certain defeat with the aid of a few remaining pawns, hastily purchasing a legacy by virtue of having his name plastered on as many institutions, stadiums, clinics, etc., as possible.

http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/07...gigawatt-farm/

Picken’s swan song: (This is the music tie in)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqj3...eature=related

Originally Posted by ERS
...Composer -chess player Rousseau's chess match with David Hume is legendary already and I have no doubt that Gioachino Cocchi and general Washington enjoyed the game too.

Jefferson certainly did (study Philidor and joined his chess society while in Paris) but there is no record of ever playing with him...

Perhaps not, but we do have evidence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin trying their luck against one of the greatest European chess masters of the latter 18th and early 19th centuries. I speak of none other than the “The Turk”. Given the timeline of “The Turk’s” popularity and achievements on the board, it is reasonable to assume that Jefferson was at least aware of “The Turk” and may have challenged “The Turk” while serving as ambassador to France. “The Turk” was capable of defeat, having succumbed to the talents of Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne and François-André Danican Philidor, while competing in France in the early 1780’s.

Edgar Allan Poe observed “The Turk” in action at a time when “The Turk” was touring the U.S., in the early part of the 19th century. Poe was not impressed, having smelled the manufactured fraud an ocean away, eventually publishing an essay exposing the inner machinations of the automaton. Please see Poe’s essay; "Maelzel's Chess Player" (There’s your literature tie in)

I found no evidence of Coronado playing chess, but I learned that another Spanish explorer/ conquistador, Hernando de Soto, taught the Inca sovereign emperor; Atahualpa, to play chess while he was held captive by the Spanish plunderers. Atahualpa was eventually executed, but I don’t think it had anything to do with his talents on the chess board.
As you may have guessed, there’s not a lot of chess playing in Dumas and absolutely none played at the Dreery Beary, though you will find a lot of checkers and dominoes hustlers around town.
The Terrier used to play three dimensional chess back in his avante-garde days under the tutelage of Oskar Schlemmer at the Bauhaus in Weimar.

Here are two other notable masters of three dimensional chess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFeMD...eature=related

By the way, for you one or two loyal readers, I apologize for the long absence. My son and I spent the last week rambling and camping around New Mexico (more on that in a separate posting) and yes, I made my way through Dumas as I headed west out of the Republic:




Yours truly fitted out in a woolen military coat, U.S. Army surplus winter helmet liner and one Montechristo cigar.

Gilliatt

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

“Whacha doin Gilly and what’s that you got settin up thar on on the bar?”
“Oh…just contemplating something and this Dusty, is called a globe. It’s like a baby earth”
“Wuts condom platin mean?

“Well, Dusty it means I am in deep thought, shielded from external reality. Sometimes I find myself recoiling into the deep recesses of my skull and think. In this case I was just thinking about one of my teachers back in Catholic grade school; Sister Mary Inertia.”

“Is she the one that slapped you with the 12 inch ruler whenever you questioned Mozart’s authenticity?”
“Be careful Dusty…you’re using those big words again and no, Sister Inertia taught science and she was especially passionate about astronomy and the cosmos.”
“Carl Sagan was her hero. I can still recall how she beamed at the sound of Sagan’s voice when he would say “billions and billions of stars…”

“Ahh, but I digress. In point of fact, I was thinking about the rotation of the earth and how as a child I always had a hankering to run in circles around the yard with this globe in my hand while at the same time spinning the globe on its axis.”
“Why would you want to do something like that?”
“I really don’t know, my mother referred to it as orbital trolling”
“Anyhow, I recently found my toy globe and I brought it here to the Dreey Beery to share with you, my friends”
“When I found it, it was fixed, but now it spins fine.”
“I don’t understand Gilly, if it was “fixed” and now it spins then it must now be broken? Right”
“No, no, I mean it was stuck, but now it is fixed! See it spins.”

“Well that’s damned confusin Gilliatt, but no matter, it’s 2:00 pm”
“What’s so special about 2:00 pm? Is there an eclipse?
“Naw I don’t have a lisp, why it’s time for the Shaman’s favorite show”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwDi...eature=related


More importantly, it’s Merle Haggard’s birthday !!!
Happy birthday “Hag”

From the Dreery Beery’s jukebox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxfgk...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YG1qrT4gxI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq27...eature=related

[yanni]

For the past few days I am sittin' a'starin' my (musicology's actually) pile of pre 1800' loose ends, Gilliat, and can't possibly refocus on Edgar's Pocasin right now, yet I did dare a brief look at your suggested Poe’s essay; "Maelzel's Chess Player" (There’s your literature tie in) and indeed found it very relevant in view of the time of its publication in the Messenger (strongly linking the esssay to "Zante", "The Visionary", "Berenice" and obviously John Cassin, Lewis Cass and their french connections).
That's all I can offer, I am afraid, for the time being and the forseeable future.

I must finally distinguish between the few different needles of my haystack.

All the best with your farorient chessmatches:

Wisemen say never start a game you can't successfully finish but what do they know: Nobody will take away our foolsparadise and Baron James de Rothschild* is long dead. Or perhaps not?

Regards.

*“You may tell your government that you have seen the man who is at the head of the finances of Europe, and that he has told you that the U.S. Treasury cannot borrow a dollar, not a dollar!”

From gas to hot air, the great greenmailer was gambling on wind for his next strategic move on the board, but found himself in checkmate with China. Now the King wiles away the waning years shuffling around the board postponing certain defeat with the aid of a few remaining pawns, hastily purchasing a legacy by virtue of having his name plastered on as many institutions, stadiums, clinics, etc., as possible.

http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/07...gigawatt-farm/

Picken’s swan song: (This is the music tie in)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqj3...eature=related




Perhaps not, but we do have evidence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin trying their luck against one of the greatest European chess masters of the latter 18th and early 19th centuries. I speak of none other than the “The Turk”. Given the timeline of “The Turk’s” popularity and achievements on the board, it is reasonable to assume that Jefferson was at least aware of “The Turk” and may have challenged “The Turk” while serving as ambassador to France. “The Turk” was capable of defeat, having succumbed to the talents of Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne and François-André Danican Philidor, while competing in France in the early 1780’s.

Edgar Allan Poe observed “The Turk” in action at a time when “The Turk” was touring the U.S., in the early part of the 19th century. Poe was not impressed, having smelled the manufactured fraud an ocean away, eventually publishing an essay exposing the inner machinations of the automaton. Please see Poe’s essay; "Maelzel's Chess Player" (There’s your literature tie in)

I found no evidence of Coronado playing chess, but I learned that another Spanish explorer/ conquistador, Hernando de Soto, taught the Inca sovereign emperor; Atahualpa, to play chess while he was held captive by the Spanish plunderers. Atahualpa was eventually executed, but I don’t think it had anything to do with his talents on the chess board.
As you may have guessed, there’s not a lot of chess playing in Dumas and absolutely none played at the Dreery Beary, though you will find a lot of checkers and dominoes hustlers around town.
The Terrier used to play three dimensional chess back in his avante-garde days under the tutelage of Oskar Schlemmer at the Bauhaus in Weimar.

Here are two other notable masters of three dimensional chess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFeMD...eature=related

By the way, for you one or two loyal readers, I apologize for the long absence. My son and I spent the last week rambling and camping around New Mexico (more on that in a separate posting) and yes, I made my way through Dumas as I headed west out of the Republic:




Yours truly fitted out in a woolen military coat, U.S. Army surplus winter helmet liner and one Montechristo cigar.

Gilliatt

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Yanni,

Piles of loose ends!? You really do take this business seriously. I am stupefied at yours and Count Robert’s tenacity on such matters as Koch’s, aliases, Mozart and the eighteenth century in general.
Your “Pocasin” stumped me for a moment, then I realized the play on Poe. Out of curiosity though, I researched the word and came up with a slight variation on the word; "Pocosin".

From Wiki – “Pocosin is a term for a type of palustrine wetland with deep, acidic, sandy, peat soils. Groundwater saturates the soil except during brief seasonal dry spells and during prolonged droughts. Pocosin soils are nutrient deficient (oligotrophic), especially in phosphorus.”
My curiosity has been stirred, so tracked down a copy of “Maelzel’s Chess Player” on line.
Here is a link to the essay if you are interested:

http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzelb.htm

I should look into the other essay’s you referenced.

Now for some music(?) with a Tolkien twist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73P...eature=related

Gilliatt

[yanni]

"Pocasin" was a very clever penname used by John Cassin, the ornithologist, in a letter to his friend Edgar Allen Poe.

What he is saying actually is that Poe himself was somehow related to the Cassins (through Poe's elder poet-sailor brother, William Henry Leonard, born Cassin, who wrote part of Al Aaraaf and perhaps other works "by Poe" as well), hence....

....Poe-Cassin!

Posts 177,8 of http://www.online-literature.com/for...=15023&page=12

One has to respect the departed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZe8E...eature=related

Regards.

Yanni,

Piles of loose ends!? You really do take this business seriously. I am stupefied at yours and Count Robert’s tenacity on such matters as Koch’s, aliases, Mozart and the eighteenth century in general.
Your “Pocasin” stumped me for a moment, then I realized the play on Poe. Out of curiosity though, I researched the word and came up with a slight variation on the word; "Pocosin".

From Wiki – “Pocosin is a term for a type of palustrine wetland with deep, acidic, sandy, peat soils. Groundwater saturates the soil except during brief seasonal dry spells and during prolonged droughts. Pocosin soils are nutrient deficient (oligotrophic), especially in phosphorus.”
My curiosity has been stirred, so tracked down a copy of “Maelzel’s Chess Player” on line.
Here is a link to the essay if you are interested:

http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzelb.htm

I should look into the other essay’s you referenced.

Now for some music(?) with a Tolkien twist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73P...eature=related

Gilliatt

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Yanni,

I bow in your general direction.
It would appear that you are quite versed on Poe and I hadn't noticed until now that you have been around Litnet for some time.

The classical music radio station serving my part of Texas, had recently featured variations on the Kyrie Eleison. Haydn's composition is one that I recall being played.
very nice!

Gilliatt

[yanni]

To "carefully and in detail observe", Gilliat, is an essential first part of reasoning (with Poe and many other everyday matters).

With regard to music: I absolutely agree with count Robert's natural tendency towards "simplicity" and as such I'll pass on your Haydn offer.

Thanks all the same.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Gentlemen,
You are more than welcome to discuss Koch's and Bach's here if you like.
The vacancy sign is on, though the gas is fading fast in the neon light. The Sonata was about to fall off the front page.
Or we can head over to the Dreary Beery and manufacture something over a cold one.
Maybe we can discuss the merits of Franz Schubert ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu8jv-mow9c

Like the old Motel 6 commercial adds say; "We'll keep the light on for ya"

Velcomin

Gilliatt

[yanni]

Forkel's?

Gentlemen,
You are more than welcome to discuss Koch's and Bach's here if you like.
The vacancy sign is on, though the gas is fading fast in the neon light. The Sonata was about to fall off the front page.
Or we can head over to the Dreary Beery and manufacture something over a cold one.
Maybe we can discuss the merits of Franz Schubert ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu8jv-mow9c

Like the old Motel 6 commercial adds say; "We'll keep the light on for ya"

Velcomin

Gilliatt

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Thanks for the Forkel drop.

Following a drive by review on Wiki, I see that Forkel “is often considered the founder of historical Musicology”, and a admirer of Bach. Needless to say, I’m sure our dear friend Count Robert could enlighten us further on Forkel.
Maybe he’ll stop by for a visit…?

Yanni,
I’m in a blue mood, what with the financial turmoil, oil in the Gulf of Mexico and a desolate Dreary Beery. Now I feel a bit ashamed for making light of old man Pickens and his wind farms and natural gas pursuits. That Bartlett shale has suddenly become more attractive!
By the way, thanks for that natural gas gift you sent me.

I decided to head up to Dumas and hang out at the Dreary Beery this weekend hoping to lift my spirits in the buzzing asylum, but instead I find the joint nearly empty and silent.

As I peer about I can see the shaman helping Padre Martini edit his homily and accompanying score for Mass tomorrow. From what I can hear, it sounds like the homily is based on the Gospel according to John.

Here is the rough draft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HLWJ...eature=related

Sitting at a table, I see an attractive woman with classic features sitting alone, staring at an ashtray and singing a woeful song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb2oXxvvfMw


Well, since we’re all feeling down, why not enjoys some music from the Beery’s juke box to suit the mood:

Bob Wills- “Empty Bed Blues”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5yAb...eature=related

B B King - “The Thrill is Gone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk2p...eature=related

Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters – “My Babe”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BNz...eature=related

Anyone else have some blues favorites ?
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On a serious note, I hope all is well with you in Athens.

Gilliatt

[yanni]

...prevented me from accessing count Robert's "divine things":

To make divine things accessibly human and human things conscious of the divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time''. - PABLO CASALS (1876-1973)

Lots of things happened as your Texas Sonata was developing, Gilliat, can't say they were "unexpected" though, forecasts came true infact in a world where it's so hard to distinguish between light and darkness, right or wrong, Forkel or Koch, Grimm or Gluck.

"Blue mood", as blue as the fin of the last tuna!

Here is something to add to Dreary Beery's jukebox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg5xE...eature=related
(Haroula links saints blessings to "progress" and more....)

"All well in Athens?"

Heh-heh, that cheered me up for sure.

Yeah, "all well", as "well" in fact as the Bank reform bill squeezing thru Congress!

That's the way things are, unfortunately and, before we can change them, we have first to survive, not an easy task, therefore....

...back on the nat-gas-prom-party:

Tomorrow begins Turkmenistan's culture week celebrations in Moscau and SaintPetersburg, an important event.......musicaly.

Do look it up, "carefully and in detail"!!!

And many thanks for your selection of souls, I enjoyed B. B. King's The Thrill Is Gone most.

Thanks for the Forkel drop.

Following a drive by review on Wiki, I see that Forkel “is often considered the founder of historical Musicology”, and a admirer of Bach. Needless to say, I’m sure our dear friend Count Robert could enlighten us further on Forkel.
Maybe he’ll stop by for a visit…?

Yanni,
I’m in a blue mood, what with the financial turmoil, oil in the Gulf of Mexico and a desolate Dreary Beery. Now I feel a bit ashamed for making light of old man Pickens and his wind farms and natural gas pursuits. That Bartlett shale has suddenly become more attractive!
By the way, thanks for that natural gas gift you sent me.

I decided to head up to Dumas and hang out at the Dreary Beery this weekend hoping to lift my spirits in the buzzing asylum, but instead I find the joint nearly empty and silent.

As I peer about I can see the shaman helping Padre Martini edit his homily and accompanying score for Mass tomorrow. From what I can hear, it sounds like the homily is based on the Gospel according to John.

Here is the rough draft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HLWJ...eature=related

Sitting at a table, I see an attractive woman with classic features sitting alone, staring at an ashtray and singing a woeful song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb2oXxvvfMw


Well, since we’re all feeling down, why not enjoys some music from the Beery’s juke box to suit the mood:

Bob Wills- “Empty Bed Blues”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5yAb...eature=related

B B King - “The Thrill is Gone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk2p...eature=related

Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters – “My Babe”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BNz...eature=related

Anyone else have some blues favorites ?
_________________

On a serious note, I hope all is well with you in Athens.

Gilliatt

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"Blue mood", as blue as the fin of the last tuna!

Ha, ha ... A coworker said "at least we don't have to add oil to to the pan to fry our shrimp"

"Here is something to add to Dreary Beery's jukebox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg5xE...eature=related
(Haroula links saints blessings to "progress" and more....) "

Thanks for sharing. She sounds wonderful. I'll need a translator.

"...back on the nat-gas-prom-party:

Tomorrow begins Turkmenistan's culture week celebrations in Moscau and SaintPetersburg, an important event.......musicaly.

Do look it up, "carefully and in detail"!!! "

I promise to look it up. It sounds interesting, but I have to run for now.

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In the meantime, here are a few more blues greats:

Muddy Waters – You can’t lose what you ain’t never had
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTHt8...eature=related

John Lee Hooker – “Big Legs Tight Skirt”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuFbe...eature=related

John Lee Hooker – Hobo Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYrVw...eature=related


Gilliatt

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I took a closer look into the Turkmenistan's culture week celebrations you mentioned.
Here is one link that I found:
http://www.turkmenistan.ru/?page_id=...sort=date_desc

Thanks for mentioning this. It is funny how we really do learn something everyday! For example, I honestly was not familiar with this country, likely from being so far removed geographically and the country’s somewhat recent independence from the USSR. So many countries suddenly realized independence from Russia that, for me anyway, Turkmenistan was lost in the mix.

I’m now curious as to why you mentioned Turmenistan and the cultural celebrations. Do you have any affiliation with Turkmenistan? relatives, nationality? Or is it simply a random item of interest?
Having read a bit about the country, I see that they are ranked fourth in world reserves of natural gas (according to Wiki). Is that one of your hidden details ? ha

Here is an image of the “State Museum of cultural Arts” in Moscow mentioned in the article above:


The article also mentions that the “Concert Hall named after Tchaikovsky will host a gala concert of masters of arts of Turkmenistan”

http://www.bolshoimoscow.com/index.h...to=31-May-2010

As I read through the information about the Concert Hall, I suddenly realized this may be the same Hall where “A Texan conquered Russia” in 1958.
I speak of Van (Harvey Lavan) Cliburn who won the first international Tchaikovsky piano competition. From Wiki – “Cliburn's performance at the competition finale of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 earned him a standing ovation lasting eight minutes.”

Fort Worth Texas now hosts the annual International Van Cliburn piano competition.

Now for some music.
I found this wonderful video showing landscape, architecture and wildlife of Turkmenistan accompanied by what I presume to be traditional form music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZUW2fIMZYQ

Van Cliburn performing in Russia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ6mIwhyec


Gilliatt