Name That Tune 1-800-919-9835

[Mark Spahn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_That_Tune

Excerpts:

Germany[edit]

Hast du Töne? (Do you have sound?), hosted by Matthias Opdenhövel, aired daily on VOX from 1999 to 2001.

Italy[edit]

Il Musichiere (The Musician) aired on Saturday from 1957 to 1960 on the then called National Program, but it ended after the conductor Mario Riva accidentally fell from the stadium and subsequently died.

Does "stadium" mean something different in Italian than in English?  I am trying to visualize an orchestra conductor falling from a stadium.  What do you call the raised platform on which an orchestra conductor stands?

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What does one call the music that is supposed to divert and entertain you while you wait for a human to answer the phone?  For an example, dial

1-800-919-9835

and wait about two and a half minutes to be put on hold.  When told, "Please tell me what I can do for you", say anything (like "Play music!").  You will then hear a trumpet(?) solo with a soft percussion-and-strings accompaniment.  What is the tune?  (And what are the instruments?)  Is it classical, or might it have been written for the wait-on-the-telephone music market.  (Is there such a market?)  I wonder what the payment-for-copyright rules are for phone music.  This particular tune is very pleasant, although also very repetitive.  Don't worry about annoying any human on this telephone line, because it has been completely taken over by Skynet, which traps human callers in a never-ending wait loop.

-- Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)

[Rene]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021, at 4:17 AM, Mark Spahn wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_That_Tune

Excerpts:

Germany[edit]

Hast du Töne? (Do you have sound?), hosted by Matthias Opdenhövel, aired daily on VOX from 1999 to 2001.

Italy[edit]

Il Musichiere (The Musician) aired on Saturday from 1957 to 1960 on the then called National Program, but it ended after the conductor Mario Riva accidentally fell from the stadium and subsequently died.

Does "stadium" mean something different in Italian than in English?  I am trying to visualize an orchestra conductor falling from a stadium.  What do you call the raised platform on which an orchestra conductor stands?

Dont you think they just mean "stage"? The Wokipedia is not exactly run by little Shakespeares.

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What does one call the music that is supposed to divert and entertain you while you wait for a human to answer the phone?  For an example, dial

A pain in the butt?

[Matthew Schlecht]

on-hold music, hold music, telephone hold music, muzak (used to be only for elevators)

Matthew