yesterday the prufessore told me she had seen beethoven's lock in the lab (well, at least two strands of it).

one of her colleagues is about to analyze the hair, probably solving the mystery about beethoven's deafness. two guys from the states are around, too, for filming a documentary about the analysis and its results. certainly, they expect some hollywood-compatible diagram to be shown.

actually, the scientific society still is at strife whether beethoven's deafness resulted from syphilis or lead poisoning (or something completely different).

in the year 2000, a hair analysis operated by guevara and brilliant already showed quite huge amounts of lead in beethoven's hair.

the current analysis here in vienna (in heiligenstadt, to be precise, where beethoven wrote his last will) tries to specify the exact location and amount of lead in the capillary structure by rasterizing the whole hair.

in the end, beethoven is likely to be the first heavy-metal composer in history.