Friday Quiz #3 a little late ...
Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)
Posts: 23,514
.. to celebrate daylight savings time!
What piece is the following snippet taken from, who wrote it, and -- most importantly -- how does it relate to Parallax?
-Phil
What piece is the following snippet taken from, who wrote it, and -- most importantly -- how does it relate to Parallax?
-Phil
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Not being an early riser, I love daylight savings time. It really does add outdoors time to my day.
Now back to the contest. Anyone?
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So, 'still waiting for the name (or BWV number) of the piece.
-Phil
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One of the most known pieces of JSB. My guess is that great phone PBX makers would use it. Like AT&T, Alcatel so on..
Wild guess...
Or could it be "Air on a G-string"...?
-Phil
We have three winners:
Ding-Batty (Composer)
Peter, LA6WNA (Connection to Parallax)
Tracy Allen (Title)
You guys can share the ... uh ... prize glory.
Question for Peter, though: how did you know? Have you phoned Parallax from Norway and gotten put on hold?
-Phil
No I am not quite that old, that is just a very common cartoon, and well known. I have even seen older references to the same idea, though that is another thing altogether.
My guess of the answer at your quiz was grabbed out of the universe. The keyword that got me thinking about "phone on hold", was the name of the composer. Bach..., typical boring music that has to be packed in a PBX to reach out to all people who has to hear it either they want it or not....
Thanks alot for the prize, Phil.
I'll take the glory and buy myself some fun stuff.
How about there's an airbase named for its pilot?
Oh, wrong speech...
I've been traveling for the last few days, so I haven't gotten back to this, but once I decided on Bach I was pretty sure I'd have a hard time identifying the piece, since JS was very prolific. And I've never called Parallax. So I was pretty sure I wouldn't make more progress on it, but if I had time, I would have used a music-matching app the way Tracy did (although Tracy also used a music-matching friend as well
You win, Phil has your round trip tickets for answering correctly.
Let us know, on your fabulous trip to sunny ?
BTW: Your first class accommodation's entitle you to a hands on experience. They need help with some engine priming and cranks turned. Also, you have to collect your own ammo, from the store room in the landing gear.
There is nothing typical or boring about Bach.
I'm no great fan of classical music but Bach is up there with Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd to my ears.
Bach was a bit of a punk in his day. On one occasion he was having a bit of a competition with another organ player, when he had stretched the complexity of what he was playing as far as possible with both hands and feet on the hundreds of keys and pedals of a big church organ he won out by holding a stick in his teeth that he could use to play some extra notes.
Bach went all the way to 11 !
Of course hearing Bach over a PBX is hopeless. Sacrilege.
You need to find yourself a big old European Cathedral with a huge organ and hear how it is supposed to sound. Hmm...you mean like all that bland rubbish we have to listen to in bars, shopping malls, taxis, every damn where, all the time.
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