Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How do You Hook up a Phone For a Play? Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 22:23:00 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 124, Message 6 of 8 >> A group I'm associated with is putting on a play and a phone will be >> used on the set. How would I hook up the phone so that I can cause >> it to ring on demand? ... >> [Moderator's Note: ... why not just get a small doorbell from a hardware >> store; a battery to drive it and a simple switch. Have it off-stage...] > Maybe he doesn't do that because a doorbell sounds NOTHING LIKE A PHONE. This is not necessarily an obstacle. Seems to me that most PHONES I encounter today, other than the 2500 set I have at home, sound "NOTHING LIKE A PHONE"! Seriously, though, if it's okay for the sound not to come from the phone itself, the easiest thing would probably be a tape recording of a phone. But I suspect that this is NOT okay, unless the phone is at one side of the set. People in the front rows can tell if the sound is coming from the wrong place. Hmm. You could always put an actual, connected phone onstage. To keep wrong numbers from ringing it at the wrong time, unplug the extension cord at the other end except at the critical moment. Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com