• The Westminster Quarters Recording of Westminster chimes from Big Ben, broadcast on Radio Oranje, at midnight on new year's eve 1945 Problems playing...
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    Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower itself, which stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England...
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    sequences of chimes on the quarter-hours. The most common sequence is Westminster Quarters. Today the time-disseminating function of clock striking is almost...
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  • Look up Westminster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Westminster is an area within the City of Westminster, London, UK. Westminster may also refer to:...
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    elaborate doorbell chimes play a short musical tune, such as the Westminster Quarters. Doorbells for hearing-impaired people use visual signaling devices —...
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    areas. Throughout the day, the carillon automatically plays the Westminster Quarters. On significant days of the year in Dutch and American culture, it...
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    every hour during daylight, the clock bell chimes portions of the Westminster Quarters. The ferry terminal is a designated San Francisco landmark and is...
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    Sonnerie Tourbillion, which contained four gongs and an emulated Westminster Quarters bell ring at each quarter and on the hour, "the same melody rung...
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    announces the quarter hours with a whistle chime that plays the Westminster Quarters. The clock produces a puff of steam from its top on the hour. The...
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  • the beginning and towards the end of the song, a recreation of the Westminster Quarters clock chime can be heard. The single was backed with the track "Cuckoo...
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    and the lunar orbit, and it is capable of playing the melody of Westminster quarters (from Big Ben, the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in London)...
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  • within sight of the clock face. Ave Maria chimes St. Michaels chimes Westminster quarters Whittington chimes Mallory, Steven R. (May 2015). "A compilation...
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    from the Orton Hall bell tower (which themselves are based on the Westminster Quarters) were added as an introduction to the song. Small selections of the...
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  • debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11 in his birthplace of Genoa. Westminster Quarters first written, for the bells of a new clock at the Church of St Mary...
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  • dagen at around 15 minutes, and the Third Quarter chime from the Westminster Quarters is quoted in the track's final seconds. The first track is based...
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  • sequence plays. The chime tune used in almost all longcase clocks is Westminster Quarters. Many also offer the option of Whittington chimes or St. Michael's...
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  • the theme of youth". He said it was difficult. The school chime (Westminster Quarters) phrase is used in part of the song. Revealing the changes that have...
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    weekdays by student carillonneurs, in addition to the usual pealing of Westminster Quarters every quarter-hour between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. In 1998, after the installation...
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    Hornet to incorporate a two-note warning tone, the first two notes of Westminster Quarters, that sounds before the doors begin to close as the train prepares...
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  • and is largely based on the Westminster Quarters: the chimes of Big Ben. When asked in an interview about its Westminster influence, Hazlehurst replied...
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  • Burnaby Road was completed in 1890, and would strike the various Westminster Quarters chimes every quarter hour. Football referees would use the Town Hall's...
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    quarter hours, and may play melodies or Cathedral chimes, usually Westminster quarters. Calendar dials: show the day, date, and sometimes month. Moon phase...
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  • used: In Indonesia, most railways stations used full-hour segment of Westminster Quarters as its train melody. Upon arrival of a train, the chimes will be...
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  • includes a 30-second field recording of clock tower bells ringing the Westminster Quarters melody and spread across 8 tracks, entitled "God = Love", which serves...
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    striking the hours and sometimes the quarters. A well-known musical striking pattern is the Westminster Quarters. This is only done when the bells are...
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  • structures, features a 10-bell set of chimes which ring the traditional Westminster Quarters. The bells, installed in 1879, are rung manually in the belltower...
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    Westminster is a city in western Orange County, California, United States. Westminster was founded in 1870 by Rev. Lemuel Webber as a Presbyterian temperance...
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    intervals. One common pattern is called "Westminster Quarters," a sixteen-note pattern named after the Palace of Westminster which popularized it as the measure...
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    pen name of Theodora Morse). The song opens with chimes playing Westminster Quarters followed by three strikes of the chimes to indicate three o'clock...
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  • Central Africa, a 19–20th-century mission society established at Cambridge Westminster Quarters List of social activities at the University of Cambridge...
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