A stereo recording of an old style telephone. This is a genuine Bell System Ringer Model 687A (8/70) made by Western Electric. It's a tan box about 15x13x6 cm. It was usually placed in a warehouse or far from the main phone so people would know they had a call. Recorded with a Sony ECM-99 Stereo Microphone from about 2 feet away to a SonyMD recorder. There may be a little room noise with amplification.
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
0:12.167
File size
2.0 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Stereo
Comments
18 years, 1 month ago
Ahhh...nostalgic!
18 years, 1 month ago
Very cool sound -- one I can use to make French bells sound in the cool British dual ring (rrring rrring!).
18 years, 2 months ago
Thanks for this, beats the heck out of the default ringer on my softphone
18 years, 2 months ago
Great sound, but it keeps opening in a quicktime plugin, which I cant save. Is there a link directly to the file so I can save it to disk instead of using the http link?
18 years, 3 months ago
Ok a newbie question. How do I turn this giant file size into a small mp3 to use on my mobile phone? It's Motorola W375.
Searched the ofrum but couldn't find it there.
