Some while ago I picked up a good old-fashioned rotary-dial phone with - as you say - physical brass bells inside the case. It had decades of dirt and old label stickum on it; 'Goo-Gone' and elbow grease brought it out good as new.
I like the repros that set Touch-Tone buttons in a circle - I have a 1920s candlestick phone thus, though I set it to pulse dialing, else what's the point? - but this is the real deal. That zzikk! Whicka-whicka-whicka dialing sound is a wormhole through time, and as you say, there's nothing dainty about the ring: It says GET THE PHONE as though triggering a genetic imperative.
I keep a Radio Shack tone-dialer by it to handle automated menus, and I'm good to go!
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Some while ago I picked up a good old-fashioned rotary-dial phone with - as you say - physical brass bells inside the case. It had decades of dirt and old label stickum on it; 'Goo-Gone' and elbow grease brought it out good as new.
I like the repros that set Touch-Tone buttons in a circle - I have a 1920s candlestick phone thus, though I set it to pulse dialing, else what's the point? - but this is the real deal. That zzikk! Whicka-whicka-whicka dialing sound is a wormhole through time, and as you say, there's nothing dainty about the ring: It says GET THE PHONE as though triggering a genetic imperative.
I keep a Radio Shack tone-dialer by it to handle automated menus, and I'm good to go!
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