# What Classical Piece Is In This Ad?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 13, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-classical-piece-is-in-this-ad/142453 "2002-12-13T05:52:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-classical-piece-is-in-this-ad/142453/1 "2002-12-13T05:52:58Z")

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Epson is running radio ads for their printers using some classical piece of mostly violins. It sounds like a part of the Four Seasons, but I don’t think so. Along these lines, it almost sounds like a part of Pachabelle’s Canon (sp?). Anyone know? Thanks for trying for me! - Jinx

P.S. I’d hum it, but I guess that won’t help me much here, huh?

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-classical-piece-is-in-this-ad/142453/2 "2002-12-13T05:55:34Z")

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You don’t happen to know where we could find a sound clip? Or can you describe the melody at all? (Note names, or something more about it?)

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-classical-piece-is-in-this-ad/142453/3 "2002-12-13T06:02:43Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Monstre \*  
> \*\*You don’t happen to know where we could find a sound clip? Or can you describe the melody at all? (Note names, or something more about it?) \*\*

Hmm…don’t know how to search for a sound clip when I don’t know the name or composer of this piece! And sorry, I can’t describe the melody any further than a nice “strings” piece.

I could spell it out as "yeet, deet-deet-deet, deet-deet-deet, deet-dit-deetle-deetle-deet, deet-deet-deet, deet-deet-deet, deet-dit-deetle-deetle-deet… (It sounds like two violins kinda complementing each other. You could say one is mimickng the other, but not note-for-note. And, the two violins I hear are playing virtually simultaneously (barring a rest or so)…as opposed to sounding like dualing or competing violins.

Does this help anyone?

- Jinx

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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-classical-piece-is-in-this-ad/142453/4 "2002-12-13T06:22:15Z")

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It is Pachelbel’s canon.

You can hear it [here](http://www.anasylum.fsnet.co.uk/pach.htm). The part you deetled (well done!) is about one third in.