The Samsung washing machine tune only plays once, after the cycle has finished. It initially annoyed me and I turned it off. I gave it another go and I found to know when a washing load was compete, a bit useful. Then I started to like to tune. I had no idea it was classical music and that makes sense now. It is a bit of a Shubert composition called Die Forelle, so my online advisor tells me. Now I make sing along noises when I hear the tune.
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How nice to have an appliance that sings to you:-)
ReplyDeleteI mentally sing along with it JB.
DeleteHow interesting. Our machine beeps at us when the cycle has finished. Your machine is MUCH politer.
ReplyDeleteEC, our microwave has a very annoying repetitive and loud beep. The washing machine tune is much nicer and ends.
DeleteI used to sing that as a kid! All the words came back as it played. "Intent upon the fishes, a sportive ,fearless band, etc"
ReplyDeleteMemories!
Wow Boud, but how does that match with what YP wrote below? Different translations?
DeleteMy Samsung sings to me too, although I wasn't aware it was a real tune. I shall have to listen to yours once I find my hearing aids to see if it is the same.
ReplyDeleteJayCee, if you really cared, you would listen to the tune and discover it is exactly the same as yours.
DeleteOur Samsung machine also had a tune. It was only 4 years old but we got rid of it because it had a mother board fault. Would never have one again.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tasker. I need to insert into next years budget when our machine will be four years old, the cost of a new washing machine. I wonder why mother board and not father board?
DeleteMy Asko will be 27 years old in September, a little beat up after several house moves but still works like new. Why change yours after only four years if it still works well?
DeleteI don't want my appliances singing, talking, joking with me; do your job quickly, quietly and efficiently. I fear that when they begin to sing and talk it's a short step to Robot Apocalypse.
ReplyDeleteBob, stop being an old grump. A cheery tune from your washing machine can make your day.
DeleteI bet Schubert never imagined that his famous tune would be used to signal the end of a cycle on an automatic washing machine! In translation, the last verse goes like this...
ReplyDeleteYou who tarry by the golden spring
Of secure youth,
Think still of the trout:
If you see danger, hurry by!
Most of you err only from lack
Of cleverness. Girls, see
Seducers with their tackle!
Or else, too late, you'll bleed.
YP, of course I checked if you are rinky dink with your lyrics, and you are. The lyrics sound a bit scary. Boud's comment above is interesting.
DeleteI would prefer a low pitch roaming noise instead. I am old school
ReplyDeleteRoentare, a roaming noise. Whatever can that be?
DeleteI can hear the classical element since you mentioned it. Our washer and dryer are thirty years old (!), so the startling buzzer is all we have. But I don't mind, as the few repairmen we've needed to call say these old heavy duty Kenmore units are the best. Be well!
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DeleteDarla, I know your washing machines are just huge and so well built. Mytag, Kelvinator, the amusingly named Speed Queen. I've not hear of Kenmore but thirty years old is very impressive.
It is similar to choosing the music you want to hear when your mobile phone rings. The music becomes very personal.
ReplyDeleteHels, it is a pity we can't change the tune, Vivaldi's Spring might be nice.
DeleteA bit of culture now come with your clean clothes.
ReplyDeleteAnd I never knew that until I researched for this post, Kirk.
DeleteI have to admit that I'm in agreement with Bob. I don't need my appliances to provide entertainment. I've got Pandora for that. Just do what they are supposed to do and let me know when they are done. Just a polite little buzz that reminds me that I need to throw the stuff in the dryer.
ReplyDeleteOh Debby, you are so stuck in the nineties. A polite buzz while we are into into a quarter of the 21st century just won't hack it. A lovely tune to warn you that the joyous task of removing wet washing from a machine is so uplifting.
DeleteYou use of 'uplifting' and 'washing' in the same sentence just seems...wrong somehow...
DeleteIt sounds like someone tweeting on a flute when they are learning to play. My machine doesn't make any sound when the cycle is finished, but I know how long it takes and usually get there right on time to open it and get the clothes out.
ReplyDeleteAh yes River. I remember those days of hearing the last spin slow to a stop. Except from aside from the tune, I don't hear the washing machine. It is quiet and locked away. Our dishwasher doesn't play a tune. I wish it did.
DeleteIt is a lovely tune to listen to and catchy also.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, yes quite catchy. It is gotten into my head, warning me of more household drudgery.
DeleteThat is cool:) Sandra sandracox.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteThanks Sandra.
DeleteThat's funny! I wonder what Schubert would think? Our machine doesn't play anything that elaborate -- just three notes when we turn it on and off.
ReplyDeleteSteve, probably wrinkle his nose in distaste as he mutters 'a washing machine, whatever that is, tune'.
DeleteOur washing machine says nothing when it is finished. Just a click and that's all folks.
ReplyDeleteOne day Pat when you are old, you will desire a washing machine with an end of cycle tune, after having left wet washing in the machine for days, and it has to be redone.
ReplyDeleteOur new ones sound like an ice cream truck!
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