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December 24

Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven

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The gangster movie Ai Haibara watches in the cinema, in which a gangster uses a M1928 Thompson submachine gun to shoot out of a car with "927-215" as license plate number, the same for one of his men in 1987 The Untouchables, is about Al Capone's gang. Can you search if exist in one of the many Al Capone's films or TV series (for exemple the TV series about the Untouchables) a similar scene where a man betrayed the gang and was killed by them while escaping along with his beloved younger sister? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.20.65.231 (talk) 21:39, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Longest note

What is the longest note (or chord) in the Classical repertoire? I am guessing it will probably be played by a pipe organ. 86.187.175.71 (talk) 20:07, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

One of the chords in As Slow as Possible may qualify as the longest in absolute time. But you may be asking about a note that is held across the largest number of bars, such as the octuple whole note. --Wrongfilter (talk) 20:20, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh thank you. That's a very interesting article, but it gives no clue as to what the note(s) or chord(s) are, or how long they last? Does the notation for that piece use that octuple whole note, which is six or nine times as long as a breve? 86.187.171.23 (talk) 20:30, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The various durations, such as crotchet, minim, semibreve, and so on, can be applied to any of the notes on a musical scale. The duration in standard time units depends on the tempo, which may be left to the performer(s), as Cage has done for his ORGAN²/ASLSP. According to the table for the Halberstadt performance in the article, the longest held chord until now was G♯₃, E₄, held for 2,527 days. I have the impression that Cage uses a notation for long-held notes of his own devising.^[1] --Lambiam 23:20, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wow that's amazing. But I guess it didn't get a very big audience? And none of it is ever broadcast? In the absence of any other claim, that must he the longest chord ever yet performed. Perhaps it would be worth mentioning that in the article and/or highlighting it in some way in the table? Thank you. 86.187.230.61 (talk) 23:38, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's a crime it never made it to the Billboard Hot 100. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:47, 24 December 2023 (UTC) [reply]