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Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be



In article <miller.812763916@aries>,
miller@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Kelly Miller) wrote:

> >> In article <43ogf7$7tr@guysmiley.blarg.net>, warrl@blarg.net wrote:
> >> 
> >> > The Japanese learned... the *first* format they came out with for CD's
> >> > has the rather odd-sounding length of 70 minutes.  This is how long it
> >> > *has* to be, to put Beethoven's 9th Symphony on one CD.
> 
> For what it's worth, Beethoven's 9th Symphony is about 60 - 63 minutes
> long, depending upon the pace the conductor sets.

For what it's worth, my copy of Beethoven's 9th (Haitink, Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Philips #410 036-2) is 69.5 minutes long, rather longer than
60-63 minutes.  I recall reading back when CDs were first introduced that
the length chosen by Sony/Philips was, in fact, to accomodate a particular
recording of the 9th.

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