1. What is the correct name for the vertical bit behind the keyboard of a piano? (Not the fall, which is apparently the bit that comes down to cover the keys: not the soundboard, which is inside ...)

2. Does anyone know where I might find a free download of an audio performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream?

edit to add: 2a. Would anyone like to recommend a torrent-tracker now that ThePirateBay has been gobbled by the Kraken?

3. Can anyone recommend a recording of Beethoven's Kreutzer sonata on period instruments? (Especially one that is available via eMusic...)

4. Have any of you ever tried playing a violin in a corset?

Google has failed me, or possibly my google-fu is on the wane! Though I do now know the mechanics of the world's first automatic door ...
My google-fu is failing me on this, but AKICOLJ ...

The problem:
- I am checking pages which include non-standard characters (e.g. quotations in Greek, names in Turkish, mathematical functions, astronomical symbols etc.)
- These characters are coded as Unicode Hexadecimal NCRs, e.g. Tòν is coded as Tòν
- All Unicode characters must be supported in Verdana

My current modus operandi:
- for each character, do a copy-paste-find on this page of supported characters
- or for slightly longer texts, get the NCRs converted via this copy-paste conversion utility, and look at included/excluded ranges on the page of supported characters

What I really really want:
- a website (nothing downloadable) where I can:
--- copy the non-standard text (or, failing that, the HTML code with the NCRs)
--- paste it into a text box
--- specify 'show me this in Verdana'
--- be alerted to (or at least be able to see) which characters are supported and which are not.

Alternatively
- point out the bleedin' obvious solution which I am missing!

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