--============_-1089627378==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" It would sound unusual, but I wouldn't call it ridiculous. In terms of a major key, the Westminster chimes have 3 (of 6) as the tonic note, not 6, so 5 is a minor third below the tonic (the last note of the fourth quarter chime). I don't think that's any worse than the much more common 2,3,4,7 of 8 with the hour on 8, or even 1,2,3,6 of 6 with the hour on 6. My favorite is the fairly common 1,2,3,6 of 10 with the hour on 10, partly because there's much more separation between the tonality of the quarters and the tonality of the hour strike. Carl _____ At 10:30 +0100 2005/07/27, David Cawley wrote: >Go to Smarden in Kent and you'll find that the clock strikes >quarters on 1,2,3,6 and hour on 5 - or used to. > >DLC > >----- Original Message ----- >From: David Bryant >To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com >Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:43 AM >Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Pen y Fai > > >Is it true that they were provided for Cambridge quarters on 1-2-3-6 of >>six, with "5" added as the hour bell? >> >>That's the story I've been told. > >Sounds unlikely. 1,2,3,6 would indeed be the Cambridge (or Westminster) >quarters, but I can't imagine anyone having an hour bell a tone above the >fourth quarter bell. It would sound ridiculous! --============_-1089627378==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Re: [Bell Historians] Pen y Fai
It would sound unusual, but I wouldn't call it ridiculous.  In terms of a major key, the Westminster chimes have 3 (of 6) as the tonic note, not 6, so 5 is a minor third below the tonic (the last note of the fourth quarter chime).

I don't think that's any worse than the much more common 2,3,4,7 of 8 with the hour on 8, or even 1,2,3,6 of 6 with the hour on 6.  My favorite is the fairly common 1,2,3,6 of 10 with the hour on 10, partly because there's much more separation between the tonality of the quarters and the tonality of the hour strike.

Carl

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At 10:30 +0100 2005/07/27, David Cawley wrote:
Go to Smarden in Kent and you'll find that the clock strikes quarters on 1,2,3,6 and hour on 5 - or used to.
 
DLC
----- Original Message -----
From: David Bryant
To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:43 AM
Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Pen y Fai

>Is it true that they were provided for Cambridge quarters on 1-2-3-6 of
>six, with "5" added as the hour bell?
>
>That's the story I've been told.

Sounds unlikely. 1,2,3,6 would indeed be the Cambridge (or Westminster)
quarters, but I can't imagine anyone having an hour bell a tone above the
fourth quarter bell. It would sound ridiculous!


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