This snippet of music was recorded from a telephone while on hold. It sounds very familiar, yet I haven’t been able to identify it. Anyone?
The snippet I heard only has 2.5 notes - is that the whole thing? If so, it’s almost impossible to judge based on that.
Gee, I don’t know how to explain that.
It’s a .wav file that’s about a minute long. I have no idea why you only got a bit of it. 
I heard the whole thing with RealPlayer/Rhapsody, but only identified it as ‘hold music’, slightly less jazzy then ours.
I don’t know, but it kind of sounds like something from The Truman Show… maybe a Philip Glass piece? Or it could also be Enya…
Doesn’t sound like Phillip Glass, but I don’t know what it is. The voiceover advising me to hold for the next available operator was weird.
That helps a lot, right?
Sorry. Don’t know.
It’s just generic hold music. It probably sounds familiar because other companies have used it also.
A quick listen suggests to me that it is a piece of piano chamber music, played with a bit more modern interpretation. Maybe something by George Winston on Windham Hill records? You could check Amazon - he has a ton of CD’s out…
Reminds me of the first song on Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports album.
Many thanks for the input, folks, To me, the endless arpeggios sound like something by Philip Glass, but I can’t put my finger on it. I think I’ve heard this in a movie recently.
Of course, it might be it’s something that was deliberately created to be bland music to be played while “on hold.”
What was weird about it?
I’m sure I’ve heard that piece before, too. I’ll have to think about it.
I still haven’t thought of it, but you should check out this site I just found for uploading pieces of music. It’s also fun to try to identify the ones that have been uploaded. I got one, but it turned out that someone else had already answered. (And I thought my knowledge of Van Halen was going to be useful! Damn!)
Wow, that’s a fascinating site, jsgoddess! Thanks. I tried to upload an MP3 of the music, but when the site plays it back, it is impossibly fast. I don’t know why. The same MP3 plays normally on my computer.
I am still thinking that this was written by Philip Glass. It sounds like so many of his repetitive, minimalist piano works.
:shrug and throw up my hands at my humble admission that I didn’t absorb the entire content of the OP smiley:
I just expected a music clip, so when the voiceover happened, I was rather
Upon re-reading the OP, I see I shouldn’t have been.
It’s definitely not Philip Glass. It sounds more like a Hanon exercise than Glass.
It reminds me of a Dead Like Me song, “Nomah’s Land” - have you watched that show, lately?