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[adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas)]

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From: adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas)
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Subject: Re: Deeper beeps
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Date: 14 Jun 90 16:54:04 GMT
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They are not Touch-Tone tones. Touch-Tones, as you may know,
consist of a distinct _pair_ of pitches (a two-note chord). The
sound in the song is a sequence of alternating pitches followed by
a longer high pitch. The tones themselves appear to be sine waves
but are not the FM tones used in modem transmission. In fact, they
seem to be a nice, musical Minor Third apart (can anyone with a
better ear than I confirm this). 

Since you can make such a sound in any modern studio in about two
minutes of synthesizer programming, I suspect that Kate simply
created it on the spot.