• @[email protected]
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    346 months ago

    The premise is already wrong. No orchestra can play Beethoven’s 9th symphony in 40 minutes, this piece is longer than an hour.

    • RBG
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      176 months ago

      Maybe it’s longer than an hour if only 80 players play it. This is 120!

      • @elephantium
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        56 months ago

        I read that as one hundred twenty factorial. That’s a LOT of players!

        • @iopq
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          16 months ago

          More players than atoms in the known universe

          • @elephantium
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            16 months ago

            More players than you could shake a stick at!

            …wait, ask the conductor first.

    • @g_the_b
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      86 months ago

      CDs were designed to hold 72 minutes of music to accommodate Beethoven’s 9th

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        Snopes says this is “undetermined” (also that CDs hold 74 minutes). Honesty pleasently surprised by how plausible it is from the given evidence though, I was expecting this to turn out to be definitively a myth.

        • @g_the_b
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          16 months ago

          Yeah, just checked and the Wikipedia says it’s a myth!