RE: Door bell ring/sound/speak?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I really HATED that pink windmill show - truly awful! ;)

Paul.



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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Kim Wall
> Sent: 22 October 2006 17:51
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Door bell ring/sound/speak?
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> Paul Gale wrote:
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> > I was thinking of changing the way the door bell is announced
> > (through Comfort currently). It rings the phones and sounds a
tone on
> > the Comfort keypads. This sounds pretty awful (like world war 3
> > breaking out!) but has the desired effect.
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> If yours is world war 3, mine is a scene from Aliens.... I've got
> beepers and xenon strobes in each room, a vibrating bed,
"Doorbell!"
> flashing up on a LED matrix sign, instant messages popping up on the
> computers, oh and the ding-dong of the bell itself.  This works
> fantastically well, unless parcelfarce/royal snail/shittylink/etc have
a
> trained ninja with an allergy to bellpushes on delivery duty that day.
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> > Was wondering whether to mute that all and just have an
announcement
> > on the whole house audio system or maybe just use a futuristic
> > sounding tone/music etc play, along with an announcement.
> >
> > Does anyone use something like this that sounds good and
doesn=92t
> > quickly become annoying (like a lot of sounds I can imaging
would!)?
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> Definitely not what you're after, but a sample from Emu's Pink
Windmill
> springs to mind...  :)
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> > Maybe some of the star trek computer noises!!!
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> I suspect a distinctive but inoffensive tone or bell would be better
> than voice.  When I was a student I had a flatmate who had assorted
star
> trek samples on his ICQ client, and the boatswain's whistle was
> particularly effective at being audible from the kitchen over cooking
> noise, even at relatively modest volume levels.
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> Kim.
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