doorbell dilemma

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

Not that I know anything about this but the link below says that the 
Westminster Chimes were an imitation of the Cambridge Chimes.  It's from the 
church of St. Mary's web site:

http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/camgsm/chimes.html
In 1793, a new clock by Thwaites of London was installed, and Revd Dr Joseph 
Jowett, Regius Professor of Civil Law, was asked to compose a suitable 
chime. We shall never know whether the result was his own invention; there 
is a long, but almost wholly unsubstantiated, tradition that he received 
assistance either from Dr Randall, the Professor of Music, or from his 
brilliant undergraduate pupil, William Crotch (1775-1847). It is also said 
that the tune is based on the fifth bar of the opening of Handel's Aria ``I 
know that my Redeemer liveth''. The clock wore out in a century; the one now 
in the tower was bought in 1892, and is by William Potts and Sons of Leeds, 
and incorporates Grimthorpe's double three-legged gravity escapement
It is often not appreciated, even by those who know the chimes well, that 
although each quarter is different, the barrel revolves twice each hour:

The tenor bell is used to strike the hour.

These much-admired chimes were copied in 1859 for the new clock and bells in 
the Palace of Westminster (commonly collectively known as ``Big Ben'', which 
is in fact the name of the hour bell alone); thus the tune is also often 
known as the ``Westminster Chimes''.


Some people associate the words
``Lord through this hour,
be Thou our guide
so, by Thy power
no foot shall slide''
with the tune of the fourth quarter of the chimes.

Helen


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