To immediately recognize a called party in the case of incoming call and to speedily recognize that a telephone number can be retrieved by matching a retrieving tone, which is sounded at the time of retrieval corresponding to the telephone number, with an incoming tone reporting incoming call at the time of incoming call from the called party of the telephone number.

This telephone set P1 has a control panel 1 to be variously operated by a user, a microcomputer 2, a display part 3, a memory 4, a sound control part 5 and a speaker 6. The microcomputer 2 controls the sound control part 5 and generates a sound corresponding to the operation of the telephone set P1 from the speaker 6. Namely, the microcomputer 2 controls the sound control part 5, sound the incoming tone at the time of incoming and sounds the retrieving tone when retrieving the telephone number or party information while utilizing the retrieval list of a telephone directory function. In the telephone set P1, the retrieving tone to be sounded at the time of retrieval corresponding to each of telephone numbers is matched with the incoming tone for reporting incoming at the time of incoming from the called party of the telephone number.