GEdney-9 Panel City Ring (1930's-70's New York City electromechanical exchange ringing sound) by ElmerCat published on 2012-06-01T01:32:17Z Download the m4r version of this ringtone at ElmerCat.org/phone/ringtones/ This is a simple "City Ring" ringback tone from the famous GEdney-9 Panel exchange, located in New York Telephone's 77th Street central office building. More information at ElmerCat.org/category/gedney/ Elmer's Vintage Telephone Sound Ringtones Mashup's made with samples from Evan Doorbell's historic collection at PhoneTrips.com Genre Ringtone Comment by ElmerCat The tone was generated by a huge rotating machine and the static between rings was caused by dirt on rotating mechanical contacts of the tone "interupter". 2012-06-23T17:06:09Z Comment by ElmerCat This is what the ringing sounded like when calling a typical local phone number in New York City, through the 1960's and early 1970's. 2012-06-23T17:01:59Z
