Nokia tune
The Nokia tune. The final A is an octave lower in Gran Vals.
A section from Gran Vals is used by Nokia for promoting its cellphones. Known as the Nokia tune (also called Grand Valse on old Nokia mobile phones), it is taken from measures 14-17, and appears again towards the end at measure 142.
The tune, which Nokia claims as a sound trademark,[3] was the first identifiable musical ring tone on a cellphone.[4]
[edit] Media representation
The cold open of many episodes of Trigger Happy TV feature Dom Joly screaming into a humorously oversized Nokia phone, always prefixed by an otherwise normal-volume Nokia tune ringer.
The Nokia tune was heard extensively during the first and second seasons of the television show Alias as Nokia was one of the biggest sponsors of the show's first season. The main character of the show, Sydney Bristow, owned a Nokia bar phone. It is also used in the television show Medium for the main character's, Allison Dubois', phone. It was also heard during a sequence of The Simpsons Movie when Homer Simpson received a mobile phone call.
The podcast for this WEEK in TECH includes Leo Laporte vocalizing the tune in the podcast's end theme.
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