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« Reply #210 on: 11:17:15, 01-02-2008 » |
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This really is the pits. I am most grateful for all the rapidshare thingies, and feel I now have a chance at competing, but also feel so ashamed that I cannot nail a single of the snatches.
I used to e able to hear a few seconds of random works on the radio and say "Oh that's ....". What has happened?
I suppose the other way of looking at it is that there is a load of music out there still to discover. That is at least a solace.
Tommo
PS Sounds like Paganini to me too
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« Reply #211 on: 11:39:05, 01-02-2008 » |
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A clueless member asks about playing m4a files. Simply entering "playing m4a files", (without the quotation marks), as the search criteria in the Google Internet search facility renders the simple solution of changing the suffix from "m4a" to "mp4".
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« Reply #212 on: 12:08:11, 01-02-2008 » |
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[...]the simple solution of changing the suffix from "m4a" to "mp4". Ooh I say - reverse engineering what! Is not that rather dodgy . . . not all of us are accustomed to live dangerously you know. Indeed some of us are suffixual innocents - would not know a suffix from a bar of soap - nor an extension, even! |
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« Reply #213 on: 13:23:54, 01-02-2008 » |
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I'll wait for one more guess at Puzzle 14 before putting up a 60-second version which should make matters easier. The composer's name is already known, is it not?  |
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« Reply #214 on: 13:34:55, 01-02-2008 » |
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Here's that last guess - Stravinsky's Danses Concertantes?
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« Reply #215 on: 13:36:41, 01-02-2008 » |
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Sorry Ron, the guess needs to be on the main thread as I need a pretext for the new message! Try another guess though. (ever warmer...) Edit: Oh I'll just put it here PUZZLE 14 (60-second version) |
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« Reply #216 on: 14:00:04, 01-02-2008 » |
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Puzzle 21 has not been guessed correctly, which surprises me only because I've already revealed the title.
I've not been able to hear it yet. Every time I click on the link it opens a blank webpage and the bottom left-hand corner of the browser window says 'Done'. (Were you trying to trick me into posting this on the Test thread rather than the Discussion thread?!  ) |
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« Reply #217 on: 21:05:02, 01-02-2008 » |
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Puzzle 25 is definitely not by Paganini...just to save strina another fruitless search! |
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« Reply #218 on: 21:08:10, 01-02-2008 » |
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Wild stab here, Tommo. Is it Hindemith's Quartet, for clarinet, violin, cello & piano? Sorry, Not Hindemith, and you are a bit short. Tommo Yes, I thought it sounded a bit more like a string quartet with the clarinet and piano. Quite a Brahmsian sound too. |
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« Reply #219 on: 21:13:35, 01-02-2008 » |
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Puzzle 25 is definitely not by Paganini...just to save strina another fruitless search! Grrrrr ... Can't think of any other silly, vapid, virtuoso, all-flash-little-substance, show-off-y violinist-composers. Veracini would be too early. Rossini didn't write a violin concerto, did he? Aaargh! |
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« Reply #220 on: 21:19:56, 01-02-2008 » |
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Wild stab here, Tommo. Is it Hindemith's Quartet, for clarinet, violin, cello & piano? Sorry, Not Hindemith, and you are a bit short. Tommo Yes, I thought it sounded a bit more like a string quartet with the clarinet and piano. Quite a Brahmsian sound too. Brahmsian is closer, but instrumentation is a bit awry. I'm sure I loaded a bit with a big hoony thing. Not a String Quartet to add to, but you now have the right number of instruments..... Tommo |
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« Reply #221 on: 21:32:13, 01-02-2008 » |
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Chafers, is the title of Puzzle 21 and anagram of "inert fig here"? That's all I can think of! (I'm rubbish at anagrams, but the Internet Anagram Server told me there were at least 1500 anagrams of that in English alone!!) (including either finger, which sounds like a title, a bit...)
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« Reply #222 on: 22:21:16, 01-02-2008 » |
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...if only question setters got points for every incorrect answer submitted... Do other Members have any comment about this suggestion? Twenty points to the setter perhaps, as well as minus twenty to the failed solver. The mysterious Puzzle 25 has given rise to much activity, but let people not in the non-Paganini rush forget Puzzle 24! We have received no suggestions at all. |
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« Reply #223 on: 22:42:56, 01-02-2008 » |
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For A: rather than clicking on 'Open', it could be worth saving the file and then opening it in the player of your choice (Real Player, iTunes or Windows Media Player etc) ...if only question setters got points for every incorrect answer submitted... Do other Members have any comment about this suggestion? Twenty points to the setter perhaps, as well as minus twenty to the failed solver. Only a half-joking suggestion really! I wouldn't want to put people off submitting their suggestions, although those for Puzzle 25 would have helped my cause enormously and there are still four days to go!  |
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« Reply #224 on: 22:45:32, 01-02-2008 » |
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I'm enjoying my downward spiral!  Wheeee! |
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