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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:50 am

In the TV Series M*A*S*H, in an episode called 'Moral Victory', one of the soldiers looses the use of his right hand. He was supposed to become a concert pianist, and becomes very distraught over the loss of the use of his right hand.
Major Winchester chastises him, and encourages him to learn to play the piano with only his left hand.

I need to find the word by word transcript that Winchester spoke to this character.

YouTube and Google have not been my friends.
Any help would be appreciated!

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

Crash, if it's of any help, that was the 188th episode of MASH, and it's "Morale Victory", not "Moral Victory."

Quote:

Morale Victory
188.
Season: 8
Episode: 19
First Aired: 1/28/1980
Prod Code: S619

Morale Victory (TV series episode)

Hawkeye and BJ are appointed “Morale Officers” by Colonel Potter to deal with the constant whining and complaining in the camp (even though they are responsible for most of it). Major Winchester tries to comfort a depressed virtuoso pianist with a hand permanently damaged by shrapnel

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Possibly episode 192, search page for "Morale Vistory":

http://epguides.com/Mash/guide.shtml

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Is this part of it?:

Quote:

Charles: Don’t you see? Your hand may be stilled, but your gift cannot be silenced if you refuse to let it be… The gift does not lie in your hands. I have hands, David. Hands that can make a scalpel sing. More than anything in my life I wanted to play, but I do not have the gift. I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music. You have performed Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin. Even if you never do so again, you’ve already known a joy that I will never know as long as I live. Because the true gift is in your head and in your heart and in your soul. Now you can shut it off forever, or you can find new ways to share your gift with the world – through the baton, the classroom, or the pen. As to these works, they’re for you, because you and the piano will always be as one

http://www.tv.com/morale-victory/episode/43391/summary.html?q=Morale%20Victory&tag=search_results;more;1

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:14 am

Is this it?

Quote:

(Charles trying to comfort a wounded soldier who before the war was a concert pianist and has now lost the use of three fingers)

Charles: Don't you see? Your hand may be stilled, but your gift cannot be silence if you refuse to let it be.

David Sheridan: Gift? You keep talking about this damn gift. I had a gift, and I exchanged it for some mortar fragments remember?

Charles: Wrong! Because the gift does not lie in your hands. I have hands David, hands that can make a scalpel sing. More than anything in my life, I wanted to play. But I do not have the gift. I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music. You've performed Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin. Even if you never do so again, you've already known a joy that I will never know as long as I live. Because the true gift is in your head, and in your heart, and in your soul. Now you can shut it off forever, or you can find new ways to share you gift with the world, through the baton, the classroom, the pen. As for these works...they're for you. Because you and the piano will always be as one.

Another version:

Quote:

Charles: Don’t you see? Your hand may be stilled, but your gift cannot be silenced if you refuse to let it be… The gift does not lie in your hands. I have hands, David. Hands that can make a scalpel sing. More than anything in my life I wanted to play, but I do not have the gift. I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music. You have performed Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin. Even if you never do so again, you’ve already known a joy that I will never know as long as I live. Because the true gift is in your head and in your heart and in your soul. Now you can shut it off forever, or you can find new ways to share your gift with the world – through the baton, the classroom, or the pen. As to these works, they’re for you, because you and the piano will always be as one.

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:16 am

^^^SP beat me to it. Very Happy

This is the link I found

I loved that episode!

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:34 am

You can watch the episode here to get the quote:

http://freetvonline.com/Visitors.php?Sections[Primary]=Video_On_Demand&Parent=1428

I have not used that site before, so please exercise caution with it.

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:45 am

That's what I was looking for. Thanks everyone! Thumbs up

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:22 am

Not so fast Crash....we still don't know what the heck you need it for. Very Happy