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Thanks to my IRC buddy sc1, who spotted these screenshots on a Dutch site Gamer.nl. The site links to another German gaming site called Gamestar.de which seemed to me to be the source of the article, so this is what our usual useful little babelfish came up with:

What do George W. Bush and Alex Denton have together? Both originate from the texanischen capital Austin. And during first nacheifert to attack the Iraq Alex is to save the world to its producer - like already dad J.C. before him in the Ego Shooter Deus ex we designer legend Warren Spector and its people an attendance abgestattet and could make sure of the fact that with Deus ex 2 a more than worthy successor develops there to the surprise hit of 2000.
At the beginning of our visit with ion Storm we are led into a large area. In it the probably largest group of leather sofas stands in completely Austin. A small bear tiger man in one appears sudden at least three numbers to large grey Schlabberpulli: Warren Spector. We have hardly time to say "hello". It falls over us ago, vibrates to us the hands and tells with flashing eyes, as much better Deus will become ex 2 in contrast the predecessor. Strained we take place....

Okay, so babelfish might have not done a very good job at that translation, nevertheless readable ;)

Screenshots: Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2, Screenshot 3, Screenshot 4
View: The full article, English translated page
News source: Gamer.nl

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On doing some research of my own, I came across a reference to this feat... was performed at the Japanese GP on or around the 13th October 2002, as one report has stated...

grandprix.com Japanese 2002 GP race report
And so, as night fell and the parties started to happen, we were all tapping away up in Press Room when suddenly we heard an engine beneath us which had been tuned to play "When the Saints Go Marching In".

The engine clearly has a future in the music business... but not in Formula 1. The day ended with Asiatech announcing quietly that its F1 plans for the future were over...

And on further bigging around on Usenet... and came across this posting on aus.cars forum on Usenet. from Gavin Cato "F1 V10 plays music"...

First you'll hear a 10-cylinder, 750 horsepower Asiatech F1 engine being warmed up. Then it performs a rousing version of "When The Saints Come Marching In", to the delight of assembled pit staff and journalists. As we all know, a V10 engine produces five combustions per revolution at a frequency per second of 60/(5 x revs per minute), which equals 12/rpm. Therefore, to work out the revs you need to hit a particular musical note, you multiply the note's frequency by 12. To play a 440Hz 'A', for example, you need 5,280rpm. For 'C', use 3,139rpm, for 'F' 4,191rpm, and so on.

Asiatech's French technicians (the engine, despite its name, is derived from a Peugeot design) simply programmed their engine to run through the various rev/note ranges in the correct sequence. The result is delightful. And think of the possibilities - BMW's F1 engine, which howls all the way to 19,050rpm, could rip through the entire Hendrix songbook.