As a little kid, I didn’t have a Gameboy. I was forced to entertain myself by honing my musical abilities. So, I learned to play Mary Had A Little Lamb on the phone.
It went:
3212333
222,399
3212333
322321
I suppose you can still play songs when dialing a phone number, but so much “dialing” these days is done just by scrolling through an address book. Do people even know the sound of their own number any more?
My parents have each had the same phone number in their respective homes for at least four decades. The sound of the 11 numbers I have to dial (not so long ago, it was only 7) has become such a part of the experience of calling them that to do with out it always feels a little like cheating. My dad’s is dee, doo dee doo (that’s 1-212) then dum-dah-daah, dee-dum-dee-day. My mom’s is dee doo dee doo (1-212!) dah-dah-dum, dah-dum-dum, dah. Got it?
Here are some other good tunes that can be composed on a phone:
Happy Birthday
112163
112196
11#9632
969363
Auld Lang Syne
11113212
321139#
#9331212
321##91
Frere Jacques
12311231
369369
9#9631,9#9631
191,191
Louie, Louie
111-66-999-66
(Songs from this site, via the book Totally Useless Office Skills)
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