The tune was prominently featured in a recurring sketch on the British hidden camera/practical joke reality television series Trigger Happy TV. The release of this song prevented the Super Furry Animals from releasing their song "Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home)" from the album Guerrilla as a single, on the grounds that it was also based on a mobile phone theme. It was released as competition for the UK Christmas number one single but only got to number 62. In December 1999, Jimmy Cauty, formerly of The KLF, and Guy Pratt released the mobile telephone-themed novelty-pop record " I Wanna 1-2-1 With You" under the name Solid Gold Chartbusters which heavily samples the theme. These include a slow piano version for the Nokia 8800 by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and a slow guitar version for the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition by Brian Eno. Other versions have been produced for specific models. This was also created by Henry Daw it was intended to be similar to the 2013 version while modernizing it. In 2018, a new version was introduced on the Nokia 1 and 7 Plus. Another updated version of the Nokia tune was introduced in 2013, built on the same principles as the 2011 version. The winning entry was a dubstep version, which was shipped on many Nokia phones from 2012 to 2013 alongside the regular Nokia tune. The same year, a contest titled Nokia Tune Remake was held on the crowdsourcing website Audiodraft. This version uses a marimba for its melody, and was intended to be genre-neutral. The Nokia N9 in late 2011 introduced a new version, which was created by in-house composer Henry Daw. A guitar-based version was introduced with the Nokia N78 in 2008, reflecting the popularity of nu-folk at the time. The Nokia 9500 Communicator in 2004 introduced a realtone recorded piano version. The Nokia 3510, released in 2002, was the first globally released phone to include this version, using Beatnik's miniBAE technology. The first polyphonic MIDI version of the Nokia tune, created by composer Ian Livingstone (often mistaken as being Thomas Dolby's work), was introduced in 2001 with the release of two South Korea-exclusive devices, the Nokia 8877 and the Nokia 8887. The Nokia tune has been updated several times, either to take advantage of advancing technology or to reflect musical trends at the time. In 1998, "Grande valse" was renamed to "Nokia tune" and effectively became Nokia's flagship ringtone. 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.
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