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A phone is a similar shape to a mouth organ, so it shouldn't be beyond modern science to integrate a mouth organ's gubbins into a phone - an organ transplant if you will. Perhaps it might need slight modification away from the diatonic scale towards the DTMF tone scale.
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
To look stuff up in. [Ian Tindale, Jan 15 2005]
DTMF = Dual-tone multi-frequency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTMF
"also known as Touch Tone®" [calum, Jan 15 2005]
For [tiromancer]
http://www.bluestra...ay.php?memo_id=1033
Mini Harmonica - about an inch long. [jutta, Jan 15 2005]
[link]
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Is a mouth organ like a kazoo, a harmonica, or what? I thought the mouth already WAS an organ. |
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am I wrong to look for subtext? |
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A harmonica, according to [Ian Tindale]'s link =P. I was expecting something like a jaw harp. |
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All the harmonica's I've seen are at least half the size of the mobile phone. Are you suggesting a fully functioning harmonica with a phone built around it, or a phone with a row of sensors on the side, which simulates a harmonica? |
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A modified mouth organ would be perfect for producing DTMF tones. You could use it just to dial from the mouthpiece of a landline phone as well. Your auditory memory would end up as a aide-memoire for numbers and possibly even replace your phone book eventually. Easily memorised numbers are currently sold at a premium (eg 020 111 2222). If we all used mouth organs to dial then numbers that sounded a little bit like "Danny Boy" or "White Christmas" would suddenly become the valuable and desirable numbers. |
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Maybe it's easy for musicians, but I have trouble telling some DTMF tones apart. |
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I would be in favour of refrequencing (I am assured that is a real word) the DTMF tones to a major scale, allowing the playing of tunes on a phone keypad. You could use snippets of music like emoticons: "Ok then, I'll hurry round right now <plays first two bars of the William Tell Overture>", or "I hear your lot are playing Arsenal tomorrow <Mahler's funeral march>". |
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Hah! That looks like it would work about as well as dialing cell phone with your ass. I suppose it could just be made longer though. |
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I wonder if it sounds the same? |
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An electronic harmonica would have a few advantages... you could use headphones, and the phone could play your phonebook entries to another phone. |
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For 'mouth organ' or 'harmonica' read 'spittle trap'. |
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Do you know the number for Domino's?
No, but if you hum the area code I can
fake it. |
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hello stranger... Domino's <spit> |
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