getting classical ringtones

My daughter now has a mobile phone and wants a piece of classical music to use as a ringtone. I’ve been looking at various sites but found the selection rather limited, unless you go for a converted MP3 file from a site like this. I don’t have much confidence that the result would make a good ringtone, or indeed that the phone could handle ringtones in true tone format (it came with minimal documentation). The best selection I’ve found so far is at Boosey and Hawkes, though it’s still not very extensive. (To give an example: the Strauss family are represented only by the Blue Danube and Radetsky March.) Have I missed something?

I can of course write one for her and turn it into a MIDI file, using the process described here.

Meanwhile, I’m very sorry that Contemporary Classical Internet Radio has apparently gone off air. I used to listen to it quite regularly when online (except when it was playing Xenakis).

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1 Response to getting classical ringtones

  1. Jocelyn says:

    What model phone is it?

    If you tell me what piece of music she wants, I can make it into a ringtone for her. (I’m only asking about the model so I can check what format it needs to be.)

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