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**Posted:** Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:04 pm

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Shad0

Re: composer

**Posted:** Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:05 pm

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EGo

Perhaps I should stop bugging her about helping us with this puzzle, then.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:12 pm

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Caspian

I really don't think this will lead to anything, but I'm posting it because I tried it and if nothing else we can rule it out.

I noticed that although the MP3 is 36 seconds long, the actual music is 32 seconds, which can clearly be seen as two 16-second portions. I thought each section sounded like it was a guitar melody with portions delted, so I overlayed the second half on the first half and have attached the resulting MP3.

I'll try to actually look more at the pitches tomorrow.

EDIT: Just in case I'm not completely off track with this overly thing, here's the waveform of the overlay. Notice how most of the chords line up with each other, but in the second half of the song (bottom) some are just a bit off beat (syncopated) and there are extra chords as well. Perhaps we need to look at the additional and/or syncopated chords?

**Posted:** Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:43 am

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Shad0

Re: composer

**Posted:** Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:36 pm

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ScarpeGrosse

Maybe it's not morse code, but binary.

dot = 0
dash = 1

?

Of course, if the guitar notes are all the same length, does that rule out binary?

*ponders*

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:28 pm

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ScarpeGrosse

Or, how about guitar note = 1
no guitar = 0

EDIT Adding on,

If we've got a simple ragtime piece, it's usually written in 4/4 time. The syncopation that caspian points out divides into eigth notes, meaning there are 8 "beats" to a measure (or so I'll name it for now.) Binary code for the alphabet is 8 numbers (made up of 1s and 0s), each starting with an 01 (hence the syncopated rhythm in the music and how we can hear the start of each letter).

Dear Lyn - Jackie likes sheet music and could really do with a transcription of this buggery 36 seconds of lyrical amusement Razz

So for the first measure, we've got:

ba dump ba dump ba ba dump ba = 01010010 = R
ba dump ba dump dump ba ba ba = 01011000 = H (?)

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:39 pm

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Caspian

Scarpe you are a genius! Here's the solve!

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:32 pm

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"I - I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only a kid."
"Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not ."

aliendial

Holy crap. You two rock.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:53 pm

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coffeegirl18

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:45 pm

EGo

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:47 pm

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When I speak, I cross my fingers.

coffeegirl18

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:09 pm

QBKooky · Decorated Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 281

*has been semi-lurking in this thread*

Nice job on the solve! I was still stuck on the piano, and didn't really believe about the pitch not being important. Poo.

*applauds!* Very Happy

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:41 pm

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A clue!

IA20 · Boot Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

Great solve! I never would have come up with that!

Interesting video; the infamous Jenny surfaces. Or maybe I should say resurfaces? Isn't that Random College Girl #1 from the Lyrics video? It sure looks/sounds like her.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:31 pm

Shad0

Re: [SOLVED][PUZZLE]

**Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:47 pm

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These were the puzzles that would take a day, these were puzzles that would take a week, and these puzzles they'd probably never figure out until we broke down and gave them the answers. ... The Cloudmakers solved all of these puzzles on the first day.