What is Elgar's Dorabella cypher?

Answer 1

It's a coded message which was sent by the famous English composer Edward Elgar to his young friend Dora Penny on 14th July 1897.

No-one has managed to decipher the three lines of squiggles - so far - although many people have tried. A competition was recently run by the Elgar Society and prize money was offered for a solution, but the judges decided there was no winner out of the seven entrants.

For further information, look for the Elgar Cipher group on Yahoo. Can you crack the code?

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Unfortunately the 3 judges headed by Prof. Kevin Jones were unable to see that one of the submitted solutions was in fact correct, it can be found here (along with the solution to the Liszt fragment) -

http://www.villageidiotvsworld.com/crypto/

Jean Palmer 'The Agony Column Codes & Ciphers'

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The solution has to be something which is in reasonable English and makes sense with no further explanation necessary. I agree entirely with the judges' decision on this. The solution has not yet been found, though many of us are still working on it.