Ring Tone!

https://youtu.be/7ptXpNFY3XM

By pgn

@pgntwo (22408)

Derry, Northern Ireland

March 31, 2018 4:37am CST

Smartphones. You've probably got one. Or have played with one. More power in your pocket today, if you own one of these things, than was used by NASA for the moon missions back in the 60s. Yup. Google or Bing will tell you, if you look. Yet for all the miracles these mini marvels can perform, do you always reverse engineer it to play a ring tone you can recognise? One perhaps based on the first phone you might have bought, just because your ear has become accustomed to it and your instant reaction is to reach for the pocket or bag where the thing lives when it's not glued to your hand or ear? So are you a Nokia Ringtone person? Or a full-on, mega bass, polyphonic Eric Clapton 'Layla' afficionado? The Duelling Banjos? Or the fad tone that was Axel F's Crazy Frog, heard blasting out in the middle of that silent bit in the cinema way back last decade?

Crazy Frog - Axel F

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@MALUSE (69413)

• Germany

31 Mar 18

I have no smartphone but the simplest 'Handy' imaginable. No ringtones for me.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

But I'll bet you can pick up its distinctive shrill or ring even when it's buried in a bag or at the other side of the room? Learned behaviour, Pavlov would have had a field-day!

@MALUSE (69413)

• Germany

31 Mar 18

@pgntwo You've lost your bet. I only use my mobile phone to call someone. It's not possible to call me. I don't want to be called. If someone feels the need to contact me, they can do this via the landline.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

@MALUSE Ah well, you win some, you lose some.

I am actually listening to the talk that had the title in the pic I used above, it's really quite interesting - if you're of a technical bent. It tells how someone got fed up of putting up with what the engineering boffins manufactured, and pushed back, challenging the status quo, driving the leaps that give us some of the technical marvels upon which we rely today.

From Mainframe to Smartphone: What an Amazing Trip It's Been with Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar, Qualcomm

[Recorded: August 21, 2014] Disruptive technologies have caused dramatic changes in computing technology for decades, often in unacknowledged ways. In this t...

@JudyEv (325584)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Apr 18

I don't have a smartphone but I think Vince's used to play the Wedding March if I rang him.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

1 Apr 18

That's a good one! Not one I'd've used as a ring-tone though...

Wedding March Organ Sound Effect

SOUND EFFECT playlist here http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg700EF7NB6HStqZXSHFpj2cfYoOJrCJY Birdsong playlist here http://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

1 Apr 18

@JudyEv Hadn't heard that one before, funny, especially the 3rd verse

BJ Berg - My Wife She's Gone And Left Me - No. 1 West - 1989

BJ Berg performing My Wife She's Gone And Left Me with Brian Sklar and the Prairie Fire band live on No. 1 West circa 1989. The Prairie Fire Band features Qu...

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@JudyEv (325584)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Apr 18

@pgntwo Have you heard the song My Wife She's Gone and Left Me? The singer only gets as far as that then bursts into laughter. I'm surprised he didn't choose that.

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@rebelann (111124)

• El Paso, Texas

31 Mar 18

Yikes, that's really really really really ANNOYING .... they've taken a really kool instrumental and turned it into something STOOPID

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@rebelann (111124)

• El Paso, Texas

31 Mar 18

I love it @pgntwo then it lead into one of my favorites, the River Dance.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

Isn't it just?

This is more like it, although not as a ring-tone...

Celtic dueling violins

Celtic dueling violins - Smith & Nesbitt. Live from Hyde Park London.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

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@LadyDuck (457822)

• Switzerland

31 Mar 18

I do not have a smartphone, I still have a cellphone, I keep it on my nightstand (just in case of problems during the night). It sits in my handbag when I go out. I left the default ringtone, may be it is similar to the old Nokia, but I would not bet on this.

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@LadyDuck (457822)

• Switzerland

31 Mar 18

@pgntwo I think to remember that our first cellphone was a Samsung, I had a Nokia that lasted many years. I use my desktop computer for my online banking, Internet and so on. Never using a wi-fi connection.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

@LadyDuck Me too. But the security device was cumbersome, and the bank provided an App version for generating the code needed to confirm you were really you. The App only worked on certain types of phone...

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

I never had a Nokia - I started with a Motorola, which I kept for many years before hopping to Sony/Ericsson, which is where I encountered the Duelling Banjos ringtone. Many other factors in my life combined to drive me towards the smartphone, not least of which was home, now Internet, banking and the complicated authentication mechanisms they made you use if you did not want to "use their app".

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@xFiacre (12589)

• Ireland

31 Mar 18

@pgntwo I learned a long time ago to keep my smartphone well away from my smartkids if I wanted my ringtone to remain as I wished and not emit rude noises at inappropriate moments.

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@xFiacre (12589)

• Ireland

31 Mar 18

@pgntwo My kids limited themselves to bottom noises thankfully.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

@xFiacre Many a fortune has been made thusly:

Rowntree's Jelly - Botty (1991, UK)

Directed by Ian Giles. Winner of a Silver award at the British Television Advertising Awards.

@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

Like the one used in the BBC Sherlock series:

Sherlock: Die Frau "Irene Adler"-Notification ''Ahhh''

Sherlock Staffel 2.1 ''A Scandal in Belgravia''

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@ridingbet (66857)

• Philippines

2 Apr 18

the Samsung phone rang its "You have reached the Taliban" ringtone a while back when our clinical coordinator miss-called me.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

2 Apr 18

Sounds more like it should be a voicemail response than a ring-tone, not one I have heard.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

4 Apr 18

@ridingbet I had not heard of this before - but I am not surprised!

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@ridingbet (66857)

• Philippines

4 Apr 18

@pgntwo no, it is not voice mail. i blue-toothed it from my big brother's phone even before there were android phones. the ring tone even brags about Osama bin Laden and the Taliban headquarters

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@Madshadi (8849)

• Brussels, Belgium

31 Mar 18

I just leave it on vibration. I don't like when it rings too loud in the public

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

That can be annoying when it rings more and more loudly and you blithely go about your routine unaware your pocket is the source of the ringing.

@Poppylicious (11133)

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2 Apr 18

I have no idea what tune my phone plays when rung because it lives its life in silence. I should turn the mute off and ring myself, just to listen. But I won't.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

3 Apr 18

I could be in the same boat, come to think of it. Imagine if the manufacturers abolished ring-tones altogether due to lack of interest

@Jessabuma (31700)

• Baguio, Philippines

31 Mar 18

I kept my phone silent, I just leave it on vibration. I don't want to be bother by phone ring tones especially when I am sleeping.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

31 Mar 18

A vibrating phone can be just as annoying, at times. Silent phones are mandatory in certain situations, but many do not realise "vibrate" does not equal "silent".