Adaptations and Misinformations
Wikipedia tells me that my dial tone is two overlapping tones:
One tone sounds at 350 Hz:
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The other tone sounds at 440 Hz:
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Together they sound like this:
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Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper, acting, claimed (implicitly) that the dial tone was this:
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However, after careful research, I discovered that, while Chris Cooper is humming a note around 350 Hz, Meryl Streep is humming a note closer to this:
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That’s about 276 Hz or about a C#/Db!¹
Movies, I’m through believing everything you do!
