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iTunes Uncovers Musical Hoax

Posted by kdawson on from the man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-Hatto dept.

holy_calamity writes "The reliance by iTunes on the CDDB has burst open a musical fraud in the usually staid world of classical piano. Albums by the much vaunted British pianist Joyce Hatto, who died in June 2006, are identified by the iTunes player as belonging to other performers. A more scientific analysis by an audio remastering firm has found that none of Hatto's works appear to be hers. Her husband, who produced all her albums, says he 'cannot explain' the similarities."

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  1. What is that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is the sound of the world's smallest violin playing.

    1. Re:What is that? by madsheep · · Score: 5, Funny

      Unfortunately you tried to pass that violin playing as being original. CDDB has identified your music as being from Giovanni Battista Viotti. Nice try.

  2. They may be .... by ehaggis · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Hayden other recordings. I say, Bach to the source to find out what is going on! I won't be Chopin at I-Tunes anymore.

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    1. Re:They may be .... by WidescreenFreak · · Score: 5, Funny

      Urgh! Too many classical composer puns for anyone to Handel. We ought to throw any classical pun abusers into jail with one person Percell until they Telemann (and women) that they're sorry.

      Okay, it wasn't that great, but you already took the obvious ones. It was very Strauss-ful coming up with new ones.

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    2. Re:They may be .... by sacrilicious · · Score: 5, Funny
      They may be Hayden other recordings. I say, Bach to the source to find out what is going on! I won't be Chopin at I-Tunes anymore.

      Now just a minuet, don't be hasty.

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    3. Re:They may be .... by heroofhyr · · Score: 5, Funny

      Okay, it wasn't that great, but you already took the obvious ones. It was very Strauss-ful coming up with new ones. Nonsense. If you try hard you can come up with a pretty big Liszt. Now get Bizet.
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    4. Re:They may be .... by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny

      This Liszt of composer puns is becoming a Verdi tiresome Paine, and causing a lot of Strauss. Ives got a Mahler of a headache now. My nerves are starting to un-Ravel, to be perfectly Franck. Now knock that Schmidt Orff! Have you no Morales???

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    5. Re:They may be .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Fugue off!

    6. Re:They may be .... by dpiven · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd chime in with a few, but my musical pun composer is baroquen.

  3. Re:Acronyms by Pojut · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...this is /.

    The majority understand what CDDB is...if nothing else, you should at least be able to figure out what it STANDS for. Just to help you out, I'll break it down for you:

    CD. DB.

    Need further assistance?

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  4. How convenient! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love when things like this come out after the guilty party has passed on. Holding up a scam with your very last breath takes dedication, and the mental image of Ms Hatto laughing pleasantly and flipping sweary fingwer gestures from the great beyond comforts me immensely.

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  5. Metamusic by mattpointblank · · Score: 5, Funny

    "iTunes Uncovers Musical Hoax"

    It's become self-aware!!

  6. The husband should just call it fan fiction... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Frankly, I blame the RIAA for going after her remixes. Talk about a vendetta. A proper Slashdot comment would rattle on about how these poor folks are suing a dead woman.

    Really, the two of them were the biggest fans of the artists whose work they fair-used. They did this as an homage. Yeah. That's the ticket.

  7. More Acronyms by MrSquishy · · Score: 5, Funny

    How are we supposed to RTFA when we dont know what "RTFA" stands for?

  8. Re:live performances? by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    but didn't she play publicly? Be kinda hard to fake that :)

        Meh. We're slashdotters. How the hell do WE know if a woman is faking something?

  9. Re:Blind music critics? by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    [...]when you had no expectation that there even was a dupe.

            This is slashdot. We're trained to be alert to those all the time.