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  4. From: ALAN@VM1.McGill.CA (Alan Greenberg)
  5. Subject: Re: Life after CDs
  6. Message-ID: <1682E149E4.ALAN@VM1.McGill.CA>
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  9. Organization: McGill University
  10. References: <14mdkjINNb4m@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <1343@eouk9.eoe.co.uk>
  11. Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:27:26 GMT
  12. Lines: 18
  13.  
  14. In article <1343@eouk9.eoe.co.uk>
  15. ahaley@eoe.co.uk (Andrew Haley) writes:
  16.  
  17. >No, it's not apocryphal, but you've got a slightly distorted version.
  18. >The person was Akio Morita, not his wife, and one of his favourite
  19. >pieces is Beethoven's Ninth, which, if played fairly slowly, can be 74
  20. >minutes long. The Dutch engineers at Phlips supposedly wanted an
  21. >hour, which sounded like a nice round figure.
  22.  
  23.  In the May 1992 Stereo Review, a reader wrote in asking if it was true
  24.  that the CD was designed to hold Beethoven's Ninth (which the reader
  25.  said was 76.5 minutes).  The reply was
  26.  
  27.    "According to Dr. H. Nakajima, who headed Sony's design team for the
  28.    compact disc, its diameter was changed from 4 to 4.72 inches specifically
  29.    to fit the a typical recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony."
  30.  
  31.  Alan
  32.