From: phil_a@tpg.com.au   
      
   "Lord Valve"   
   > Patrick Turner wrote:   
   >   
   >> nobody had anything electrical,   
   >> ( except for a few rich bastards in the royal court in Vienna   
   >> where Mozart recorded his music.   
   >   
   > To my knowledge, Mozart never recorded jack shit - there was nothing to   
   > do it with in the late 1700s. If you mean by "recording" that he wrote it   
   > out   
   > on staff paper with a pen, sure.   
      
      
   ** Mozart pre-dated even the player piano by about 100 years.   
      
   That said, his phenomenal popularity suggests that had iPods been available   
   in 1780, young Wolfgang " tinkling the ivories" would been top of the pops   
   with all the damsels of the day.   
      
   Just like " boy bands "  are now ...   
      
      
      
   ....  Phil   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)