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.
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Type- Wave (.wav)
- Duration
- 0:12.167
- Filesize
- 2.0 MB
- Samplerate
- 44100.0 Hz
- Bitdepth
- 16 bit
- Channels
- Stereo
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Comments
Absolutely LOVE this sound. I'm familiar with it too, as I have a BUNCH of old ROTARY Bell System phones I've collected.
This is exactly what ive been looking for. 10 out of 10
I want my friends to call me every minut with this sound!
Amazing, thanks
perfect, just absolutely perfect. it's music to *my* ears to have my phone ring with this tone.
oh and
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-->angeliemonette: how to get on phone, depends on phone. try attaching it to an email and sending it to your boss's phone's email addy. or use bluetooth if you've got it. OR if phone has basic browser access can input the URL of the download into the browser and save.
Thank you, it is nice to have the old phone ringing again.
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