"Drop the Needle" Winners for 1.12.11

“Drop the Needle” Winners for 1.12.11

Well, as I’m sure a number of you noticed yesterday evening, there was a technical (possibly manual) glitch in the Drop the Needle system and the correct answer was mistakenly posted in lieu of the 60 second clip. I’m terribly sorry about that. But I’m also sure that not everyone saw the answer and I know quite a few of you had submitted your responses well before the goof up.

So…the results are in! As always, thanks much to all of you who participated in this week’s “Drop the Needle” competition. This week, nine participants got everything correct, including the name of the the piece which was Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, Movement III, Allegretto no troppo, Allegro molto vivace by Felix Mendelssohn.

Here’s the whole thing for you to enjoy:

(If you don’t have a copy, you can pick one up now at .)

The winners are:

Go follow them on Twitter and and try to figure out if they got on this list based on knowledge or the glitch. :-)

Thanks again to everyone who participated and my repeated apologies for blowing it on this one. I’ll make it up to you by offering a particularly cool version of Drop the Needle the last week of this month, so stay tuned for that.

If you have ideas for pieces you think would be particularly difficult for people to guess, please let me know.