Juozas Rimas wrote: >Indeed, coughing may spoil a concert recording whatsoever. I once heard >a Richter's concert recording of the C major prelude - he plays very >intimately and several well-placed coughs are enough to make me avoid the >recording... I bet there are even worse coughed recordings. There's that lovely Toscanini live recording of Beethoven's Third: two chords, a cough, and a chair falls down. Walter Meyer