Very slightly improved mobile phone ringtone

Many people have, as their mobile phone ringtone, something which sounds like an old-fashioned non-mobile phone which had actual bells inside which were hit with a tiny vibrating hammer. This is pleasing to the ear (at least, more so than many mobile phone ringtones) and a nice nod to the venerable history of electronic communications technology.

The glaring problem with these electronic simulations of the sound of physical bells (and you will notice this every time you hear it, now that I've pointed it out) is that when the person receiving the call presses the button or swipes or whatever to pick up the call ("pick up" itself being a reference to phones with handsets) the computer-generated bell noise cuts off instantly whereas, with a real phone with physical bells being hit by a hammer, the hammer would stop hitting the bells but the sound of the bell which had just been struck would sustain* for a few seconds. This flaw in the simulated bell sound is (a) annoying, and (b) grossly lazy on the part of phone designers

So, this idea is that we should use the vast processing power of modern phones to better simulate the bell sound in these ringtones, and generate a gradually decaying bell chime which continues for a second or two after the call is answered.


(*Nigel Tufnel: The sustain, listen to it.
Marty DiBergi: I don't hear anything.
Nigel Tufnel: Well you would though, if it were playing)