![]() ![]() some 3310s) still used Type 7 as the name of the Nokia tune. In December 1997 with the introduction of the Nokia 6110, ringtones were each given a specific name, and the tune received the name "Grande valse". ![]() The tune's original name varied in the ringtone list, listed as Type 13 on some phones, or Type 5 on others. The Nokia tune first appeared on the Nokia 2110 released in 1994, under the name ringtone Type 7, showing that it was just one of the normal ringtones. The excerpt is taken from measures (bars) 13–16 of the piece. In 1993 Anssi Vanjoki, then-executive vice president of Nokia, brought the whole Gran Vals to Lauri Kivinen (then-head of corporate communications) and together they selected the excerpt that became "Nokia tune". The excerpt of Gran Vals used includes the phrase that would later be used for the Nokia tune ringtone. In 1992, Nokia used Francisco Tárrega's Gran Vals as the background music in a commercial for the Nokia 1011. It has been associated with Finnish corporation Nokia since the 1990s, becoming the first identifiable musical ringtone on a mobile phone. ![]() The Nokia tune (also called Grande Valse) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, composed in 1902 by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega. Problems playing this file? See media help. ![]()
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