Part 1
There was this ringtone I heard while at a shopping mall this afternoon. It was ridiculously funny to me. I was just walking along a corridor when a slightly 8-bit-like version of a Für Elise started sounding. Very normal right? Für Elise is a nice, charming melody, evidently very timeless too, so much so that it makes a very nice ring tone.
Except. Something was blatantly off about this version. For any who plays the piano or who have seen this melody being played on the piano, a very notable fact is that the starting melody (the repeated two notes), are a white key and the black key just to the left of it. This version didn't have any black keys at all. The melody is still recognisable to be Für Elise, but it just ended up feeling like an oddball imitation of it (which is really what it was).
(I'd like to add, there is a G#, also black key, a little further down in the melody, and that was also played as G natural, a white key. -.-)
Part 2
And then this reminded me of a young student of mine who wanted to learn Für Elise. Her mum, for whom English is not her first language, sent me a message one fine day. The text went along the lines of, "Hello xxx, my daughter said she wants to learn a song called: To Alice." ... ... ... ... ... XD!!! This translation (and typo) makes sense if one translate this title from Mandarin to English. Boy, was I confused for a while.
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