From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 11 6: 8:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA7637B405 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 06:08:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id EB62114C53; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:08:36 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: Robert Clark , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> <000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <00d901c17fa0$9d81f800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011209144217.A49268@darkstar.gte.net> <15379.65514.588658.899404@guru.mired.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Dec 2001 15:08:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: <15379.65514.588658.899404@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Mike Meyer" 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