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    Next I would draw your attention to our quarter chimes and chime-tunes, for, although a mechanical performance, they have a considerable hearing on the general appreciation of heil music. The music of quarter chimes for the hour is arranged in a melodie sequence of 5 phrases twice played, thus: No. 1 for Ist quarter, Nos. 2 and 3 for 2nd quarter, Nos. 4,5 and 1 for 3rd quarter, and Nos. 2,3, 4 and 5 for the 4th quarter. This is the form and plan generally adopted for public and domestic clocks. I will mention as an example the Westminster Quarter Chimes well known all over the world. Their history is interesting. They were composed by Dr. Crotch and first put up at St Mary’s the Great, Cambridge, in 1794 and are properly called Cambridge Quarters. It is said that Crotch took the initial 5 note figure from the sth bar of the introductory symphony of the air „I know that my Redeemer liveth”, in Handel’s Messiah. These chimes were played for over half a century before any notice was taken of them. In 1845 they were copied at the Royal Exchange, London, and in 1859 at the House of Commons, since which time they have been reproduced in every part of the globe as „Westminster Quarters”. When chime-tunes are used they are played melody only and on the heaviest bells available. To me, this has the effect of a ponderous bass voice attempting to perform music suited to a soprano. This is very different from music in 3 or more parts played by the automatic carillon, principally on small bells, with the occasional use of the large ones. We suffer much from the neglect of the chime mechanism and I think that Holland and Belgium are much in the same position with regard to the automatte carillon. For satisfactory automatic playing it is absolutely necessary that the mechanism should receive constant attention and very careful regulation, otherwise the music played is simply a burlesque on the original. With us, owing to the fact that the bells are nearly always the diatonic notes of the major scale, modulation is precluded, which greatly limits the number of available tunes. However the clockmaker, who rarely possesses any musical skill, has no compuction in altering any notes of the melody to suit his mechanism and the bells at his disposal. Probably no tune has been so badly treated as our National Anthem. Here are 3 examples which I think will interest you but which I produce with shame, for such mutilation and distortion is greatly to be deprecated.

    BELLS BELLS MUSIC AND CARILLONS

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