trimphone

trimphone
A luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.

Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire, and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated...


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