Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/28/vintage-japanese-landline-phon.html
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A nice ring is an awesome life hack. Feng shui mastery.
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That is a nice ring.
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Should be easy enough to make a mobile phone ringtone out of it. Anything to make the world a more pleasant place.
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My apartment in Kamakura came with phone service and two antique black rotary phones (one upstairs, one downstairs). My landlady apologized for them, but I loved them. They had the ring you hear here and very long cables so I could carry them anywhere in the small apartment. Good memories.
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Why have such a pleasant noise when you could have Tom from the Tom and Jerry cartoons screaming?
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Well, here it is as a file you can use as a ringtone…not a pristine recording, but good enough for my old ears.
If it’s not kosher to share this way, let me know and I’ll remove/change.
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So, generalizing a bit here, but it seems to me that Japanese designers focus a lot on the little things that bring small pleasures. Little details that delight and are often very thoughtful solutions to common problems seem to occur at a higher rate in Japanese designed products. Just my observation, though.
Like a ringer is just to get your attention, but why not make it pleasant?
Love this!
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I noticed that about life in Japan. Lots of little details and innovations “just because.”
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The folks at Western Electric spent a good bit of effort making the bells on American phones sound pleasant, but also somewhat annoying, as an inducement to answer the damn thing instead of just admiring the tone.
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Nokia’s ring ring sounds like this phone, but connected on a british landline
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This book has an excellent chapter on synthesizing old telephone bells by way of physical modelling in puredata.
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