. Time and its measurement . 1. Repeat!]Quarters the time you take it out again to findthe time for him ! Whj-? Because, for Fig. 42—Syrian Dial sion from the pnsitiun cif the hands; sowe onh read hours and minutes whenwe are called on to proclaim the time.^Ve must find a little space for strik-ing clocks. The simplest is one blowat each hour just to draw attention tothe clock. Striking the hours and alsoone blow at each half hour as well asthe quarter doul)le blow, called tingtong cjuarters. are too well known toneed description. The next stage afterthis is chiming C[uarters with threeor more
. Time and its measurement . 1. Repeat!]Quarters the time you take it out again to findthe time for him ! Whj-? Because, for Fig. 42—Syrian Dial sion from the pnsitiun cif the hands; sowe onh read hours and minutes whenwe are called on to proclaim the time.^Ve must find a little space for strik-ing clocks. The simplest is one blowat each hour just to draw attention tothe clock. Striking the hours and alsoone blow at each half hour as well asthe quarter doul)le blow, called tingtong cjuarters. are too well known toneed description. The next stage afterthis is chiming C[uarters with threeor more musical gongs, or bells. Oneof the best strikers I have has threetrains, three weights and four bells. Itstrikes the hour on a large bell and twominutes after the hour it strikes itagain, so as to give you another chanceto count correctly. At the first quarterit repeats the last hour followed b^ amusical chord of three bells, which wewill call one triple blozv: at the secondC|uarter the hour again and two tripleblows and
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