The bell tower
December 14, 2006 on 7:04 pm | In Music |City Hall is adjacent to the block where I live. It sports a bell tower chock full of different sized bells capable of producing a wide range of audible tones. Every hour during the day it plays some cutesy song, followed by a sequence of evenly spaced tones to indicate the hour. It’s starting to annoy me, and the thing is it’s not repetition that’s the culprit. It sure has a wide range of songs it can play, from themes from “The Sound of Music” to the usual Christmas melodies. The annoying thing is that it tends to “oversing” everything. It throws in lots of extra notes, sort of like those people who sing the national anthem at sporting events. You know what I’m talking about. Whoooaaaoooowhaaa oooohhhhhweeee hoooooowooowooo! I especially hate this in regular music.
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Agreed on the extra warbling notes. It is contived and artificial. It draws attention away from the tune, something like someone making comments during a critical scene movie.
Comment by YFD — December 15, 2006 #
I think it keeps things fresh and makes us listen. HA!
Comment by YFM — December 15, 2006 #
After a while, you start not to hear it. It’s like living next to a train yard. Give it another two months and you’ll be like, “is the clocktower broken? I haven’t heard those f-ing bells lately…”
Comment by emerson — December 15, 2006 #
i always wanted to program that tower to play
for whom the bell tolls.
i would go crazy for an hour on that thing.
Comment by vasyL — December 17, 2006 #
You’re a hotie!
Comment by justme23 — December 25, 2006 #