Trivia: The origin of the "Nokia Ringtone"

Here's some trivia from the same article in The Guardian as previous post entitled Ringtones: The new currency of cool.

For those of us without a musical ear and who have not recognized the score, the famous and generally considered annoying Nokia ringtone is actually a 13 note rendering of Francisco Tarrega's masterpiece, Gran Vals. Tarrega was a 19th-century Spanish musician considered by aficionados to be the father of the modern classical guitar.

emily | 2:53 PM | Ringtone «Firsts» |
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