Norman M. Schwartz wrote:

>Bert Bailey wrote:
>
>>...  The Mozart/Schubert set with the Trout and the "Answer the telephone"
>>piano quartet are particularly fine.
>
>Is this Virgin: 7243 5 61454 2 9? I have it for the Schubert Adagio &
>Rondo concertante, (D. 487) a long standing favorite of mine!  However I'm
>not familiar with the "Answer the telephone" bit.  ...

No humor Norman, rather, it is a nmenonic (did I spell that right) device
used to remember the opening theme:

long long   short short short  long
an-  swer   the  tel-   e -       phone

Kevin