This page loads an excerpt from the second movement of Joseph Haydn’s (1732–1809) String Quartet in E major op.17 no.1. The script defines a bank of files supporting a sampled acoustic instrument. The samples making up this definition are MP3 instead of WAV files, to investigate differences in buffer times.

When the ‘Please wait’ below is replaced with a time in seconds, the excerpt is ready to play. (Contrast with the load time for the WAV-based definition — the MP3s do not seem to load much quicker and the sound quality is noticeably poorer.)

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