Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:26:59 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1008375658.b33175@mired.org>, "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org> Cc: "Robert Clark" <res03db2@gte.net>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <00f901c18258$4e7a10c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org><006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com><a05101004b8373f5230e8@[10.0.1.16]><00d901c17fa0$9d81f800$0a00000a@atkielski.com><a0510100bb8375314d283@[10.0.1.16]><20011209144217.A49268@darkstar.gte.net><15379.65514.588658.899404@guru.mired.org> <xzp7krtvogr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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The Ninth is what I heard, and supposedly it was a Sony manager who insisted that CDs be long enough to hold it. One naturally thinks of the late, great Mr. Morita, but the source I encountered didn't name the manager, and it might have been someone further down the ladder. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1008375658.b33175@mired.org> Cc: "Robert Clark" <res03db2@gte.net>; <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 15:08 Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. > "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1008375658.b33175@mired.org> writes: > > The two constraints I heard are that 1) the player had to fit in the > > cassette/radio space in an automobile console, which provides a > > maximum for the outside diameter, and 2) it had to hold a specific > > Beethoven symphony (the fifth?), which provides a maximum for the > > inner diameter. > > It would have to be the ninth, then. Deutsche Grammophon's 1977 > edition of Beethoven's Fifth, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic > directed by Herbert von Karajan, is just short of 30 minutes - 29:52 > to be exact. I don't have Beethoven's Ninth, but judging from track > listings in the Deutsche Grammofon catalog, it is somewhere in the > vicinity of 50 minutes - not much more than fifty, because the CD it's > on starts off with the Coriolan Ouverture (op. 62), which is just shy > of nine minutes long, and these CDs hover around the 60-minute mark. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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