Phone randomly plays a little tune!

It's happened twice now. I'm doing nothing, and I think the phone is doing nothing. Then suddenly it plays this little tune. It's music, a bit like a ring tone but it's not. Firstly, I don't have this ringtone on my phone. I only have the standard ones. Secondly, nobody is phoning me. Nothing is happening. No email coming through. No event in the calendar. And no little red circles or pop-ups to notify me that Facebook or Nimbuzz or any other 3rd party app is doing something. My phone shows no abnormal activity, except playing this little tune for about 5 seconds. It doesn't cut out or anything, it's just a nice short little tune.
Does anybody have any idea what this is? It's only happened twice in a week (and I've had my phone for ages now and never had it happen before) but I'm really curious and also don't want to be missing out on something incase it's important.
Any ideas? It's an iPhone 3G and it has been running OS 3.0 since it was released.

This is the first time I hear such an issue. Are you sure that it is indeed the Music app on your iPhone which is responsible for the random playback? When you unlock the iPhone what application do you see open?

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