The famous nokia ringtone
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The famous Nokia ringtone is not an original creation, but the composition of a Spanish musician. It was written in 1902.
This ringtone is certainly one of the most famous melodies on the planet. It was heard absolutely everywhere in the early 2000s, coming from the 3310 and its cousins Nokia. But we probably never asked the question of who composed it. Just imagine that he is not a Finn, but it is a Spanish musician who is at the origin. And that the melody does not date from yesterday.
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One of the things that the Spanish guitarist Francisco Tárrega has gone through most of the time is these few seconds from his "Gran Vals", from which Nokia shot its legendary ringtone, reports Quartz. "When the Finnish manufacturer was at the top and dominating the market, this iconic sound - da-dee-da-daad - sounded about 1.8 billion times a day in pockets and bags all over the world."
Yet the story could have been quite different. When Nokia had to choose a song for its ringtone, the Finnish company had a specific criterion in mind, continues Quartz. "'Gran Vals' was among the pieces that a Nokia engineer and a marketing executive tested for early versions of the phone.When it came time to choose which sounds would be incorporated into the final product in 1993, the biggest advantage of Tárrega was a long time dead, Nokia was looking for a sound, which would not have to pay any fees, and in European law, the music was raised in the public domain 70 years after the death of the composer Tárrega , who died 84 years earlier, at the age of 57, did the trick. "
Chopin or Tárrega?
As The Next Web reported in 2011, Nokia's ringtone was originally called "Grand Waltz" on its phones, "the same name that was given to its composition by Frederic Chopin". So why credit Francisco Tárrega and his song of 1902, "Grand Waltz"?
"Well, the truth is that Nokia was inspired by Tárrega, but he did not compose all of his work without finding inspiration somewhere - in this case, from a three-second clip of 'Great Waltz' of Chopin. "
A century later, tells Quartz, this ringtone has become one of the world's most famous "earcons", with the whoosh of a Mac at its launch, or the sound of the subway before the doors close. A sacred legacy