So, I'm Getting Used to Westminster Chimes - Again.

Last fall, my Mom wanted to finally get the grandfather wall clock cleaned and repaired. I just got it back today and it's sad that she didn't live long enough to enjoy it again.

But anyway, it has Westminster chimes which means it chimes on the quarters with an escalating number of hits. We get four on the quarter, eight on the half, then twelve and finally sixteen at the top of the hour. And then it has a deeper note strike for the hours. I'm wondering how long it will take to get used to it again.

I do remember episodes when I wanted to know the time and I would glance over to the clock. Yeah, it's a 12:03 and three minutes ago it just banged-out twenty-eight notes and I wasn't even bothered.

It's a nice noise to have around.

I have my late grandmother's clock that also does that. It broke last year, I need to get it fixed

Never from a wall clock, but the church belsl growing up. Only one ring on the quarters. When we moved it was replaced with the fire siren that did a noontime sound off.

My father repaired clocks as a hobby then owned a clock shop for a while. Sometimes we would have 20+ working chiming clocks in the house. Mostly they were pleasant, but it did get noisy.

My wife got her mother's grandfather clock. It took a while, but I got used to the chiming. It stopped a few years ago and I actually miss it.

In reply to Basil Exposition:

Did he later buy a DeLorean and mumble something about "flux capacitors"?

Too lazy to change mine to Dlight savings time....so I 'add' an hour

We have a cuckoo clock that not only cuckoos on the hour and half-hour, it also plays one of two German folk songs every hour after the little birdie does its thing. I'm always surprised when people are over and stop talking when this happens, because I don't even hear it anymore. (My usual reaction is, "What?") That said, I miss it when I'm away.

Margie

We have an wind-up 8 day Westminster clock. Growing up, my parents always had clocks which ran on weights.

My parents had a clock with chimes. I can't even handle clocks that tick.

Basil Exposition wrote: My father repaired clocks as a hobby then owned a clock shop for a while. Sometimes we would have 20+ working chiming clocks in the house. Mostly they were pleasant, but it did get noisy.

Were they all set 25 minutes slow?

I didn't know that had a name. The grandfather clock that my grandparents bought when I was a little kid does that.

It's in my living room now.

Appleseed wrote:

Basil Exposition wrote: My father repaired clocks as a hobby then owned a clock shop for a while. Sometimes we would have 20+ working chiming clocks in the house. Mostly they were pleasant, but it did get noisy.

Were they all set 25 minutes slow?

I finally got mine keeping perfect time. When I friend of mine who used to work on clocks looked at me, smiled, and said

"Well alright!

That will work out great!

Until the weather changes!"

trucke wrote: We have an wind-up 8 day Westminster clock. Growing up, my parents always had clocks which ran on weights.

This one uses weights, too. It stopped running about 4AM so I was a bit concerned after just picking it up. Turns out the weights had to be reset. Doing that made me remember just how far those things had to be pulled up.

Clock's been running great since and keeps knocking out those crazy beats.