Re: Mobile madness

> A couple of years ago there was this really annoyingly memorable, bouncy,
> classical mobile tone that I have not been able to identify (I know
nothing
> about classical composers - as me a question on Bob Dylan ;)). It was used
> to devistating effect when Yasser Arafat was condemning the 9-11 terrorist
> bombing and one of his aides mobiles went off. In any other circumstance
it
> may have been funny but in the aftermath it was not. I have never
forgotten
> the tone and cannot name it. It was a common default tone on certain
> mobiles, probably nokia. My friend said it was L.V. Beethoven but I an not
> sure.
>
> any ideas?

This may well be the Badinerie, from the Suite in B minor for flute and
strings, by J.S. Bach.  It annoyed the h* out of me, because I'd previously
spent a month practising that piece, and to hear it butchered like that...
*shudder*