{"id":535,"date":"2006-12-14T17:36:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T17:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=535"},"modified":"2006-12-14T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T17:36:06","slug":"3-note-oddity-and-uk-telephone-error-beeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"3 Note Oddity And Uk Telephone Error Beeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone with very good ears writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Just thought I would write in on the off-chance that no-one has noticed this, though I&#8217;m sure someone must have done already.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking that the normal 3 note tone when you misdial a number or leave the \u2018phone off the hook sounded, to my ear, identical to how the \u201cThree Note Oddity\u201d ( tcp_d1_12_three_note_odditiy_irdial.mp3 ) would sound if it was upped by an octave and played at double the speed.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to stick the two into a wave editor, with the Irdial 3 note oddity in the left channel, and the telephone message in the right, and it turns out that the 3 notes are exactly the same.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what it means, but it just seemed like a cool co-incidence. :-)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve attached <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irdial.com\/telephone_error_tone_right_ch_with_Irdial_3_note_oddity_left ch.mp3\">an mp3<\/a> (with the \u2018phone notes slowed down by 50% and shifted down an octave to match the Irdial)<br \/>\nThe \u2018phone error in this is from the Telewest system, been a while since I&#8217;ve heard BT\u2019s but from memory I think the tones are the same.<\/p>\n<p>Mark<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The never-ending strangeness of Numbers Stations; a constant source of pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone with very good ears writes: Hi, Just thought I would write in on the off-chance that no-one has noticed this, though I&#8217;m sure someone must have done already. I was thinking that the normal 3 note tone when you misdial a number or leave the \u2018phone off the hook sounded, to my ear, identical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,8,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}