Put on your headphones and enjoy a nearly 3d sound experience of nearly 1000 ticking and chiming clocks. From very soothing sounds to an intense horological orchestra of clocks battling for the loud chime title.
I lived in a bulding with several tallcase clocks as a child and somehow developed phobia towards them. If I was put there as a child I might as well fainted screaming. But now I'm fascinated with all the detailed workmanship to bring clocks to life.
It is pleasant and enjoyable to hear the sound of chime bars, tubular bells, dome shaped bells and coiled wire gongs etc. Some clocks strikes the number of hours at the top of every hour and strike at once at the bottom of the hour. Such clocks strike the hours either as a single note or a chord, two note strike sequence, sequence of a note followed by a chord. Some clocks mark every quarter hours by musical sequence on tuned set of 4, 8 or 12 bells, chime bars or gongs in addition with full melody followed by number of hours at the top of every hour. The most common quarter hour chime sequences are Westminster, Dick Whittington's, St. Michael's and Schubert's Ave Maria! Some clocks do not chime at quarters but they play different melodies on music-box or barrel organ for each hour just before or soon after striking the hours on bell or gong. Nowadays these types of striking and musical clocks are electronically imitated by some quartz clocks because they contains electronically recorded and programmed circuit board of sound chips connected to speaker. Either real chimes, music-boxes and barrel organs of antique mechanical clocks or electronically imitated in quartz clocks. I like chiming clocks.
