The tower of Big Ben is an important London landmark. The clock is known for being an excellent time-keeper. The bell is known for the sound it makes as it chimes every hour on the hour. Four smaller bells in the tower chime the quarter hours. The main bell is also known as the Great Bell.
Big Ben will bong to welcome in 2022! The bell will be struck 12 times as it hits midnight on New Year's Eve, despite other celebrations in the capital being cancelled. Big Ben Sounds. Below are sound samples recorded from Elizabeth Tower. Firstly the quarter bells, secondly the hour strikes of Big Ben. The quarter chiming bells sound the notes G♯, F♯, E, and B. The first strike on the hour is intended to be within one second of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Finally, after the installation of the hour bell and four smaller quarter-chime bells, on July 11, 1859, Big Ben chimes for the first time. The second bell too cracked after a few months and was out of service till 1962 when it was repaired with a square piece of metal.
The melody has only four notes, which means that a clock only needs five chimes and hammers (one for each of the notes, and one to strike the hour) -- they are B, E, F♯ and G♯, if you're interested in that kind of thing. The mechanism used to make the hammers chime the quarters has five permutations of these notes "encoded" into it, and
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The clock sounds like a chime, but many people are unaware that it does. Big Ben plays its distinctive tune every quarter hour, and each note is played four times: G, F, E, and B, and various parts of the tune are played at different intervals throughout the quarter. When back to normal, there will be a big chime every hour, with smaller bells ringing on every quarter. Big Ben was supposed to chime a few weeks ago to mark the end of the national mourning 3BlH.
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