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I have been on a fair few help lines in my time and distinctly remember one tune from I believe was the Toshiba Strata, it was referred to as the Plinky-Plonky music.

The MoH was not changeable like it is today and stored on the cpu of the system rather than the phone.

The best way to describe the music was a sort of muffled laterna turn-style plucking noise. sweet sounding.

Now, does anybody know what I am talking about. Please help if you can. Many thanks in advance.

Most of those canned tunes were nonroyalty due compositions like "Greensleeves" or "Home on the range".

I have worked on Toshiba for 14 years and don't recall any built in MOH , NEC has some built in MOH , I think it played two tunes Yellow Rose of Texas and some Christmas tune, but I don't recall any with Toshiba

I recently recieved this:

"In the old days Toshiba had on the Strata Se, Vie, XIIe and the XXe a small card that was plugged into the CPU and gave out a chime for Music On Hold. The Part Number was SMOU"

I just searched Greensleves on iTunes and it came up with an album from 1996, (weaving olden dances) and its that kind of old plucking instrument that rings so familiar.

Can you see from my previous post the details I came across recently and if I am on the right track, thanks.

Do you have a strata vie,xiie ,xxe ,if you do the Smou is your card if you can find one.

We are talking 1985ish on these products.

I don't have any phone, I was told that a Strata CT would be the one I am looking for. I can't imagine any company using phones from ~1985 until about 5yrs back.

The old Tie 1030s - "The Grey Whales" had a music box on board that played - I believe- Greensleeves. This is (very) early 1970s.


Sam

I remember the toshiba card we sold 1 and the customer had us take it out.

Even on the newer voice mails that Toshiba has, if the caller is given the option to press * to hold, he will hear about 30 seconds of some tune that I certainly cannot identify. It is built into the voice mail, not the phone system,