clock chimes
Tower's time announcement
Clock chimes are the melodic sounds a clock makes to mark the hour or quarter-hour, produced by bells or tuned rods struck in sequence.
The most familiar pattern is the Westminster chime heard from Big Ben and grandfather clocks.
The clock chimes woke me at midnight.
Chimes distinguish themselves from simple strikes by their musical, often elaborate character.
- bellsStruck metal sound-makers
- church bellsBronze instruments in steeples
- towerTall slender edifice
- Big BenLondon's celebrated tower clock
- grandfatherFather's or mother's father
striking · hourly · on the hour · gong · Westminster · pendulum · carillon · tolling · midnight · cuckoo · resonance · ringing · melody · quarter-hour · bong · mantel · timepiece · cathedral
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