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Hartford, Providence and Fishkill
Mossy, tree-lined rock face
Mossy, tree-lined rock face

12. Dialing In

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Dialing In
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Dialing In

I needed a little break after "Peg's Dream", so I started experimenting with reckless pitch bends, using the dual-sine tones produced by telephone dialing as percussion. I felt that things were getting out of hand and cut it short. In the course of working on this track I learned that in the North American phone system the "dial tone" heard when a landline has not yet been dialed or has been disconnected from a call consists of combined 350Hz and 440Hz sine waves.

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