AND THE WINNER IS: First pipe to break the Brahms' Sympnony length barrier. Loaded the Oriental dedicated Ropp J07 late last night with Amphora Absolute (Rich), one of my favourites of the genre. Proceeded to listen to the Giulini recording of Brahm's 2nd Symphony, a magnificent performance with the LA Phil which comes in at a full 42 minutes. Not only that, but squeezed in the first two movements of Holst's "Planets". Had a great smoke.
That's a full 55 minutes on this little pipe. I've exceeded this in the same R07 with a slow and cool burning cavendish, but not with any Oriental somewhat faster burning rate. This is an amazing little pipe.
Gunning for Mahler 6 or a full opera next, with my big Pete or Sav. I'm pretty sure the Pete will do 2 hours if I do my part lol!. Tried a different set of filters on this pic to solve my color balance on this forum system. Nope. Back to the drawing board.