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I live in a small Swiss village. We have two churches, they ring their bells every hour (number of dong-sounds is equal to the hour). But, they're slightly out
by alfanick 1y ago
I live in a small Swiss village. We have two churches, they ring their bells every hour (number of dong-sounds is equal to the hour). But, they're slightly out of phase, so you can hear two separate churches' bells.
And one of the churches also rings their bells every 15 minutes (1-ring for each quarter). On top of this at 6:00am it rings a whole rhapsody of sounds for whole 5 minutes - "wake up people, time to go to work on a field!".
Initially it may be annoying, eventually you just get used to it, in the end you actually learn to figure out the time from the bell sound and make use of it.
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- cogogo 1y agoI live in a neighborhood in Boston with a couple of big churches. The hourly bells are useful to teach the kids how to tell time. Especially when out and about. Thankfully none of the bells wake us up but I do appreciate them.
- nandomrumber 1y agoDoes the speed of sound have anything to do with them appearing to sound non-synchronous?
- idontwantthis 1y agoShouldn’t there only be two spots where it is synchronous ? Edit: I was imagining intersecting circles for some reason. All places not equidistant would hear them out of sync.
- spiritplumber 1y agoYou can probably use that to estimate your location!
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- tristramb 1y agoEstimating location from hearing Big Ben strike thirteen: https://www.mscroggs.co.uk/blog/44 https://www.mscroggs.co.uk/blog/44
- eleveriven 1y agoThere's something kind of grounding about being able to tell the time by sound alone, like your own analog smartwatch