What do the tunes mean?

[samoht04]

Only Base Game Gnomes will age and die. This is strange, the Mystery Music! 

[HannahEloiseee]

Is the music fast or creepy? I've been hearing the noise when ghosts come out of their graves some nights around 10pm-4am. It only started happening after I installed pets. When it happens I always zoom in on the grave yard and sure enough, there's ghosts out.

Once, I also heard the noise of a pet dying but I had no pets.

[Catarra Nightshade]

It's not the ghost music, I know what that sounds like. And I don't have any pets, and I don't know what it sounds like when a pet dies.

Gnomes have the same life stages, so when you get a gnome, I would assume it'd be a young adult...so maybe it became an adult the first time I heard the music, and an elder the second? If that is what the tune is. Perhaps, like with the ghost tune not starting until after pets, maybe I didn't get the gnome music until after installing pets.

[Catarra Nightshade]

I hadn't heard the tune for quite a while, and then it finally played again tonight, and I hit record...and the movie has no sound. >.<

[loveSims]

Did any big birds die on your lot? A sad tune is playing when a bird die.

[Catarra Nightshade]

As far as I know, there were no animals on my lot. And I've had a couple Sixams die, and it wasn't the same sound.

[loveSims]

When a sim become best friends with a pet there is also a tune. I can't think of someting else lol.

[kattiq]

I know what tune you are talking about because it has happened to me quite a few times in the night! But nothing has ever been on my lot to cause it to go off..I wonder if it's a glitch?

[Joria]

Ahhh, the melodious mystery meanders on.  Hope someone figures it out.  I have my sound turned off when I play, (it annoys my husband to hear it), so I've not heard this sad song.

[Banksia]

Could it be the sound of a spirit infestation in a nearby house?

[Catarra Nightshade]

I finally caught the tune on video...after finally figuring out that I needed to go in to Options and check the box to enable sound capture in videos. Can I post the video here? I've perused the forum rules, and I didn't see anything about video posting one way or another. And I guess the second question would be, if I am allowed to post videos here...how do I go about doing so? 

[Seabody]

You can either attach it or upload it to YouTube and link to it. (Probably the latter)

[Catarra Nightshade]

Thank you, Seabody, for answering my question.

I don't have a Youtube account, and the video is the wrong file type to post as an attachment, so I uploaded it to my Sims 3 Fun blog. The link is in my signature, and the blog post is labled Mystery Tune Video.

I missed the first few notes because the tune always catches me by surprise, and after it starts playing, I have to gather my wits enough to hit record.

Thanks, everyone for helping me figure out this strange tune. Hopefully the video will bring closure to this mystery!

[Seabody]

You're welcome.
I am fairly certain that's the death tune. When a Sim dies, that plays. Though I see the mystery - for a moment, I was thinking "I KNOW this! What is it?"

[Noodles]

Well, I just heard a new tune in my game, at night when everyone was sleeping, and I hurried to zoom out to see my lot - nothing was happening... I never before heard that and it was, like Catarra said, a very sad tune... but not the same one that plays when you give a pet up for adoption (I think that melody is sad, too). I got Pets for christmas so I'm sure it's something that was added lately, I never heard it before. So, I'm curious too.