for 4 years, for repairing. I expect after restoration, I can heard it from Buenos Aires :-D
Big Ben falls silent for repairs - BBC News
Now, more than 150 years of continuous service only. If it has built now, 150 hours and no more :-D
Big Ben falls silent for repairs - BBC News
Now, more than 150 years of continuous service only. If it has built now, 150 hours and no more :-D
> MARTIN AUDIO OFFERS SOLUTION....
That was my first thought: we have technology to make fake sound anywhere.
Martin's twist is high-directivity so they can put the speakers on the tower, so the city hears the bongs in the right place, yet put very little sound toward the workers on/in the tower. Me, I'd just hang stadium clusters on rooftops a block away, accept the Haas effect from several speakers and the wrong-way sound inside the one block (the Parliamentary estate).
That was my first thought: we have technology to make fake sound anywhere.
Martin's twist is high-directivity so they can put the speakers on the tower, so the city hears the bongs in the right place, yet put very little sound toward the workers on/in the tower. Me, I'd just hang stadium clusters on rooftops a block away, accept the Haas effect from several speakers and the wrong-way sound inside the one block (the Parliamentary estate).
The powers that be haven't got back to Martin Audio, they probably think there's no point paying vast amounts of money for four years of pointless sound effects
Have you ever noticed that the bell is not all that loud at the base of the tower, but out on Westminster bridge it's loud and clear?
But how will the British know when it's officially teatime? (Anyone else remember that Pinky and the Brain episode)
It's always nearly teatime, and that's close enough 😉
Big Ben is by no means an old clock though (just a particularly gaudy one). You need to see the one in Wells Cathedral in action; where the same knight has lost the joust, every 15mins, for most of the last 600 years..:
The Clock - Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral clock - YouTube
Wells Cathedral clock - Wikipedia
Big Ben is by no means an old clock though (just a particularly gaudy one). You need to see the one in Wells Cathedral in action; where the same knight has lost the joust, every 15mins, for most of the last 600 years..:
The Clock - Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral clock - YouTube
Wells Cathedral clock - Wikipedia
I should note the silencing of the clock is mainly whilst the Tower is being fixed up. After its 2007 service its aparantly good for another 200 years.
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