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Ronald Binge (15 July, 1910 – 6 September, 1979) was a British composer and arranger of "light music".

Binge was born in a working-class neighbourhood in Derby in the English Midlands. In his early life he was a musician who played the accordian in Mantovani's band. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force; after the end of the war, Mantovani offered him the job of arranging and composing for his orchestra. His best known compositions are probably Elizabethan Serenade and Sailing By - the latter notably from its use as the music which to this day is played at 0045 each morning, before the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4. One of his other well-known pieces is a concerto for Alto Saxophone.

Binge is probably most famous as being the inventor of the "cascading strings" effect which is the signature sound of the Mantovani orchestra, much used in arrangements of popular music; it later became associated with "easy listening" music and Muzak.

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