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I could imagine the reels of Rupert’s tape machine winding away backstage, the strains of music being summoned up, by magnetism, from the subatomic world of iron oxide. As it had likely been nearly two hundred years since Mozart first heard them in his head, it seemed somehow appropriate that the sounds of the symphony orchestra should be stored in nothing more than particles of rust.

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"I could imagine the reels of Rupert’s tape machine winding away backstage, the strains of music being summoned up, by magnetism, from the subatomic world of iron oxide."

Rupert Neve is an English electronics engineer and entrepreneur, who is particularly known as a designer of professional recording equipment.

magnetic tape
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(Electronics) a long narrow plastic or metal strip coated or impregnated with a ferromagnetic material such as iron oxide, used to record sound or video signals or to store information in computers Sometimes (informal) shortened to mag tape

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"As it had likely been nearly two hundred years since Mozart first heard them in his head, it seemed somehow appropriate that the sounds of the symphony orchestra should be stored in nothing more than particles of rust."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a great composer of eighteenth century.

The sentences says that it had been nearly two hundred years since Mozart first imagined and composed the symphony. Since the compositions are very old, it would be appropriate to store them on magnetic tapes composed of iron oxide. Rust is also composed of iron oxide. Rust also means deterioration, as of ability, resulting from inactivity or neglect. This is real with all old things which are neglected and left unused, they get rusted.

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