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From: rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Boot Sound
Message-ID: <274@dana.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 88 20:17:29 GMT
References: <6019@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <3037@cbmvax.UUCP> <173@obi-wan>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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Summary: of course --- what else would he have used???

In article <173@obi-wan>, berman@stsci.EDU (Mike Berman) writes:
> 
> Sure enough, the tune is an arhythmic version of Seigfried's horn
> call. For those unfamiliar with this theme, it was used heavily in
> the movie "Excalibur" (I haven't seen the film, but I have this on
> good faith from people who have). The music is "Siegfried's Funeral
> March" from "Gotterdamerung". "Gotterdamerung" is the fourth part
> of the ~20-hour "Der Ring des Nibelungen". Siegfried's theme also
> appears prominently in the third part, "Siegfried".

For those who are interested in the origin of the sound, the boot
diagnostics were written by one "Dusty" Bleher, whose nom-de-birth
(heretofore unknown to most) is Siegfried.   Sorry Dusty - I just
hadda tell - you're famous now!

Rob Peck			...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap