What is the correct onomotopaeic spelling of the Law & Order sound?

haven't any of you people seen the USA Network promo where several cast members talk about the sound, and it's spelled as "doink doink"?

DANN DANN

(it were florek who said 'it's the doink doink')

but then there's this:

Kitt: What's the official name of that sound?
Mike Post: The ching.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Iching-hexagram-64.png
Hexagram 64 is named 未濟 (wei4 ji4), "Not Yet Fording". Other variations include "before completion" and "not yet completed". Its inner trigram is ☵ (坎 kan3) gorge = (水) water, and its outer trigram is ☲ (離 li2) radiance = (火) fire.

Besides a synthesizer, what instrument would make this noise? I picture something hollow and thick, almost like something made of animal horn or wood, but really large, struck in a big echo-y room.

from the same Mike Post thing I just quoted: "I found a sample of a jail door closing, and I put it with a couple of little other sounds, and made this ching-ching thing."

DUNG DUNG

-- n/a, Friday, October 26, 2007 11:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

I picture something hollow and thick, almost like something made of animal horn or wood, but really large, struck in a big echo-y room.

Like a...gavel?

Oh, wait, it's not just a gavel, it's also a cell door slamming shut!

and monks stomping on a floor

seriously there are people who thought that was a gavel?

are you deaf?

Belzer calls it a gavel in the USA promo.

Belzer's deaf, tho.

BADONKADONK

Not like a gavel, no. Unless it is a gigantic, hollow, sonorous gavel.

Processed gavel sound, yes.

Recorded up close but then mixed with a 'cathedral' setting.

gavel: chopped and screwed

I think there's a gavel in there and then a synth line added to go with it.

to all those who say it is a gavel, I say:

RONG RONG

DUNG DUNG

Belzer calls it a gavel in the USA promo.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Friday, October 26, 2007 1:31 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

it was originally a gavel but the 9/11 commission in league with the vatican and the rand corporation covered it up & made it a jail door

for the record, it's the sound of Det. Eliot Stabler slamming a child rapists' face twice into the table of the interrogation room.

^^^^^ someone put that to a bangin' techno beat plz

it's the sound Yoshi's tongue makes in Super Mario World.

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good Lord people it's CHUNG CHUNG, I thought you had to answer this question correctly before they give you a driver's license in most states

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All options here seem to suggest that it's the same sound both times! But there's a total difference in what MIDI would call, umm, velocity.

I mean, it's got the same phrasing as "ch-ching," if instead of "ching" the root were "dung."

This is my compy's "you f'ed up" sound. DUNG DUNG.

I just watched one last night about a writer in some blackmail circle, was surprisingly good. Second ep I've ever seen and fuck if I need another TV show to zone out to but there it is.

nabisco, sorry, but the metrical rhythm of this sound is definitely spondaic, not iambic

QONG QONG

doesn't this sound out as "chung chung" in pinyin?

I think you have that backwards elmo - "ch-ching" would be short-long/unstressed-stressed, in the theme the second beat is harder/longer = it's an iamb

You're right, Elmo, I'm remembering it backwards.

It's almost like a long delay/echo that's been truncated to just two sounds: DUNG-Dung (dung dung dung dung...)

!!!! CONFUSION

you're a dactyl

also john and tokyo rosemary are right: it's CHUNG CHUNG.

J0hn I think Elmo's right! First one shorter but more stressed: DA-dunnng

doesn't this sound out as "chung chung" in pinyin?

Not quite. QENG QENG would be closer to "chung chung."

there's absolutely nothing resembling a hard "ch-" sound in it.

no no! both beats have the same emphasis! SPONDEE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_&_Order#The_card.2C_and_the_sound

This is accompanied by a tone, which has been described as a "DUN dun" or "thunk thunk" sound. It was originally developed to sound like a barred door in a jail cell slamming shut (Law). In promos for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit reruns on the USA Network, actor Dann Florek refers to the sound as the "doink doink"[9], while Richard Belzer refers to it as the sound of a judge's gavel. According to IMDb.com, it "was created by combining close to a dozen sounds, including that of a group of monks stamping on a floor."

Tomboto was right.

i'd call it KUNG KUNG tbh

both beats have the same emphasis, elmo's right. it's just that first one's overwritten by the attack of the second one, which is allowed a slow decay.

UPDATE: It had not occurred to me that they have variations on the signature sound, from the low dunk-dunk to the high ch-chhhh. But if you go by the repeating-sound gag in this YouTube clip

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xM2XY4h-70

the first iteration is very clearly way more accented -- in the single-echo way I was talking about upthread.

AND if you listen at the beginning of this clip, you will notice the second one seems maybe even slightly lower in pitch?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dCV5G-ZTc14

(I think there is a repeating sound with two different tones mixed in, for a kind of doorbell-like DUNG dung.)

each spinoff ought to have its own signature tone really
the CI one could just be a guy saying "donofrio!!"

No, the CI one should be the clip of D'Onofrio whinnying like a horse.

The one for Trial By Jury should be the anguished squeal of a man getting punched in the nuts.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dCV5G-ZTc14

haahahaaha holy shit everybody needs to watch this

how come special victims unit was never this amazing when i tried to watch it

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omg

I can't watch SVU at all because Meloni is permanently typecast in my mind as the camp cook in WHAS

I wish I had sound right now

SVU is almost always this awesome.

haha that whole thing was just a setup to get meloni out of the episode!

http://www.cookcountycourt.org/images/1.gif

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and the end of the clip the letter M calls the sound "chung chung"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2CSkLR6mUQ

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i just walked by another Law & Order shoot this morning and when passing the crew suppressed an almost irresistible urge to shout "DUNH DUNH!" at them.

haha

"other" was robbed. none of the given options were right.

¡Tchkung!¡Tchkung!

it's "DUNG GUNK" obv

BUNKUM

¡Tchkung!¡Tchkung!

Minus the Spanish exclamation points, this looks like a Wade-Giles transliteration of a Pinyin version already mentioned.

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ny times weighs in
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/arts/television/04kant.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin

Great is the truth and it prevails

need an iphone app for this

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