Phone notification and ringtone alerts, cleverly arranged for FLUTE

19 November 2018, 17:01

By Maddy Shaw Roberts

All those notification and ringtone noises that your phone makes, but adapted for the flute.

From an incoming Facebook messenger call to the classic Nokia ringtone, ArianaFlute has interpreted all the most earwormy notification sounds.

We’ve heard them played on the violin before, but we think these little ditties are even better suited to the high-pitched tones of a flute.

Don’t blame us if you now find yourself instinctively reaching for your phone...

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