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Musical piece coming from speaker on bottom of hi-fi? Ordinary (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oratorio

'musical piece' is the definition.

'speaker on bottom of hi-fi? ordinary' is the subsidiary indication.
'speaker' becomes 'orator' (orator is a kind of speaker**).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'bottom of' says to take the final letters.
'ordinary' becomes 'o' (abbreviation e.g. O-Levels).
The last letter of 'hifi' is 'i'.
'orator'+'i'+'o'='oratorio'

'coming from' is the link.

(Other definitions for oratorio that I've seen before include "Large choral work" , "Religious musical work" , "E.g. Messiah or Elijah" , "Comprehensive music" , "Sacred musical piece" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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