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You may have thought that all of Florida is pretty heavenly, but it in fact has a special region known as the Paradise Coast that ranks among the best places to spend a few relaxing days. Collier County is the actual name and it contains the towns of Naples and Marco Island, but you can call it whatever you like. Here are a few ideas; bliss, dreamland, cloud nine...

Let's just focus on Marco Island for this vacation, considering that it is well-equipped to handle all the needs and expectations you have for a sunny beach getaway. Much of the land in these parts is protected as a park and nature preserve, meaning that you'll glimpse the Everglades in all their untouched glory. The splendid marshland and abundant wildlife are just a couple of reasons that this coastal refuge is equated with the idea of paradise.

The rest of the reasons are pretty solid as well. Marco Island's crescent shaped beach encompasses a few miles of white sand and recreation-friendly water. Tigertail Beach Park is an excellent place to sit down for a picnic, a sunbathing session or just a few hours of family fun building sand castles and frolicking in the surf. The sunsets tend to be spectacular, the sea shelling is sublime and the man-made aspects of the area are set up to ensure that every visitor is treated kindly and well.

Culture junkies won't starve here thanks to the Marco Island Historical Society as well as several art galleries. Florida tends to attract and inspire all sorts of artists with its natural beauty and laid-back atmosphere, and Marco Island is no exception. Take a look around if you're in the market for the perfect piece to hang above your mantel, and if you're lucky you'll come across exactly what you're looking for. Or, if you'd rather just window shop or fill your head with a few tasty tidbits of information about the area's Native American influences (the Calusas were the first ones here, by the way) then you'll be all set.

Venture out on the water by renting a boat or hopping aboard a chartered cruise. Watch for dolphins, sea turtles, manatees and all sorts of exotic deep-sea fish that you probably aren't used to seeing except for on your plate at a fancy restaurant. From sailboats to canoes, kayaks to wave runners, there are many methods of gathering speed as you skim across the surface of the Gulf. Nothing makes you forget about deadlines and email like feeling the salty spray awaken your fun-loving side, so save ample time for this exhilarating pastime.

Continue your tour of tantalizing delights as you get to know the rest of Marco Island. Golf courses, nature tours, spas and boutiques will compete for your attention and allow the members of your group, who probably have varying interests, to do their own thing for a few hours. Meet back up for dinner to exchange stories, telling each other of the day's adventures over a fabulous meal of seafood and other exotic dishes. Moods will be light and the laughter will come easy thanks to everyone having spent a fabulous day doing what they love.

End it all on a high note by returning to your fantastic accommodations; in this case, a beach house should definitely do the trick. Marco Island Vacation Rentals are plentiful and come in all shape and variety; they also tend to add a special touch to what is already sure to be a wonderful getaway. Pick one that matches your needs in terms of size and location, then sit back, relax and enjoy the view of paradise.

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Music Online Glossary – When Music, Music Careers and Pcs Collide

The Internet has proven to be where music can be discovered, reviewed, discussed, shared, and purchased. Musicians know this and get online to upload their music and become a part of the world wide music machine process. They come on the Web at every age, at every experience level – musically and computer savvy. From youngsters starting out to seasoned musicians just learning where the computer on switch is, the workings of being on a computer can be overwhelming with everything else they have going on in their lives.

The Web also allows musicians access to music knowledge. Artists will come across difficult terminology and phrases that they do not understand. Compiled in the following mini glossary are music business, digital, organizations, record biz lingo, computer terms and basic need-to-know info. Hopefully, something listed here will help you navigate music online a bit easier, and so you know, this glossary is an excerpt of an extensive list found on Artistopia.

A&R – Artist and Repertoire, aka talent scouts: a record company liaison whose duties may include to find, select and develop the music artist, band and/or songwriter.
Affiliate Program – a way to earn income by linking your Web site to another site, depending on the action taken by the visitor.
ASCAP – American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers which licenses and distributes royalties to it’s members’ copyrighted works.
Bandwidth – has nothing to do with the size of a band but is a measure of the amount of information (data) that can be sent over a network connection in a given period of time. Bandwidth is usually measured in bits per second.
Bitrate - The number of kilobits per second of data in your audio file. The bitrate you choose when creating an MP3 file determines the size and quality of the resulting MP3. The highest commonly available bitrate is 320 kbps and the higher the bitrate, the closer the encoding is to the original source of music.
Blanket License – allows the user to perform any or all, in part or all, of the songs in the ASCAP repertory. What a warm and cozy license.
Business Manager – an artist or band manager that specializes in the financial matters, including planning, investing, income, taxes, decisions and contracts.
Buzz – to get people talking about a new artist, band, song or album, creating intense excitement and/or rumors.
Clause - a chubby fellow in a red suit is Claus: in a record contract, there might be certain limitations, specifications, or modifications that stipulate the final outcome of that contract.
Concert Promoter – with duties including ticketing, PR, marketing, and booking, this agency or agent responsibilities are for concert event promotion.
Content – to make the Search Engines happy and have pages rank well in a search result, a good quantity of well written text aligning with the site’s keywords and theme updated regularly is a Webmaster’s steak and potatoes.
Cookie – no, not chocolate chip, but a piece of software that records info about your visit to a Web site, then holds the info until the server requests it.
Copyright - a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information, in our case artistic properties, the songs and sound recordings.
Derivative Work – a new work based on or resulting from one or more preceding works.
Digital Licensing – the use of copyrighted music compositions including downloads, on demand streaming, limited use downloads and CD burning.
Distributor – the agency or agent that handles the sales and shipment of the music (records, CDs) to the marketplace or basically, gets the product to the consumers.
Domain Name – a sign post on the Internet, it is a unique name that identifies an Internet site.
DRM – Digital Rights Management is a technology that protects a piece of intellectual digital property such as a music, video, or text file.
Encoding - the process of converting audio to or from a compressed format like MP3 or WMA.
Exclusive Rights – under copyright law, the privileges that only a copyright owner has with respect to the copyrighted work.
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) - a file format for audio data compression that does not remove information from the audio stream, as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do.
Grammy Awards – an award ceremony for all genres presented by the Recording Academy for outstanding achievements in the recording industry: a gold megaphone for your mantel.
Groupie – what’s the point of being an act without groupies? Overly enthusiastic fans with much love to offer.
HTML - HyperText Markup Language, programming language for the world wide web. A web browser interprets the code written and displays it for a web page and web sites. Some very basic knowledge of HTML may help on some sites.
Hook – a pirate: a music phrase, a passage, an idea – something (catchy and/or repetitive) that makes the song stand out and be more appealing and remembered.
Hype – sensational and extreme promotion of a person, idea or product.
Indie – an independent artist or band that desires to do-it-all-themselves and/or not affiliated with a larger record label.
Intern – usually a college student job at a record label in a no or low paying position, more of an apprenticeship learning the ropes and gaining business experience.
Internet Service Provider (ISP) – how and who connects your computer or network to the Internet, whether dialup, DSL, Cable, T1 or T3.
Master Recording License – pertains to the recording of a performance itself, which are usually controlled by the record label.
Mastering – the final stage and preparation in a recording before weapons of mass duplication, includes the consistency of audio levels and quality perfecting.
Mechanical License – the use of copyrighted musical compositions for use on CDs, cassettes, record albums.
Music Contracts – all the various bits of paperwork used in the music business, always read the “fine print” to the many contracts – recording, management, finders fee, general release contracts. When the contracts come in – time to get an Entertainment Attorney.
Music Industry – all things pertaining and related to the business of music, dominated by the Big Four major labels: Sony BMG, Warner, Universal and EMI.
Music Publisher – provides services such as marketing, pitching and promoting works written by songwriters. Deals with the commercial exploitation of music catalogs and songs.
Press Kit – aka media kit, a prepackaged set of promotional materials for a music artist or band for distribution including song samples, bio, historical info, photos and contact information.
Producer – duties include: controlling the recording session, guidance of the artist(s), coaching, organizing, scheduling of production resources and budgets, as well as supervising the process of recording, mixing and mastering.
Publishing Royalties – income paid to the writer of a song.
RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America, the organization that represents the interests of record labels and producers in the USA.
Ripping – means to take an audio CD and record it to a computer in an uncompressed file format (wav). Digital audio extraction from one media form to a hard disk.
Roadie – the road crew that travels with a band on tour. These hard working individuals do everything but the performance, are technicians, do the set up and take down, security, bodyguards, pyrotechnics, and lighting.
Sampling Rate - the number of samples taken per second when digitizing sound. The higher the number, the better the quality of the digital reproduction.
SoundExchange – an independent, nonprofit performance rights organization that collects and distributes digital performance royalties for recording artists and record labels when their sound recordings are performed on digital cable, satellite TV music, internet and satellite radio.
Sound Recording – the copyright of the recording itself (what you hear, the entire production) as distinguished from the copyright of the song (words and music owned by the songwriter or publisher).
Synchronization License – aka “synch” license, allows the user to reproduce a musical composition "in connection with" or "in timed relation with" a visual image, motion picture, video, advertising commercial - from the copyright owner of the music.
Talent Agent – or booking agent, the representative of the music artist(s) that sets up the live performances.
Vanity Label – a celebrity recording artist is given a label within a label and runs under the umbrella of the parent label.

About the Author

Artistopia - The Ultimate Artist Development Resource http://www.artistopia.com is an artist development and community on the web providing music artists, songwriters and bands all the tools needed for displaying their talent, music business collaboration, marketing and networking. Online since 2003, Artistopia develops advanced technology solutions that leverage the Internet to both the music artist and music companies respective advantage. Full list at Music Glossary Online

Marble Mantel

Need help finding fireplace pics online to duplicate in my remodel!!!!?

Can anyone PLEASE help me find some pics of fireplaces to duplicate in my remodel? I ripped out the old fireplaces/hearths in the house and now want to put in wood mantels with legs (will stick out of wall) and want to put some type of neat surround (maybe marble, tile, etc.)? My house has dark woods and neutral walls and I want something that has clean lines (nothing intricate). Can anyone help???

go to flickr.com and type fireplace or ratemyspace.com/hgtv great places to look!

 

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Marble Restoration in Los Angeles

Marble stone give the feeling of mortal and be sentient of one of the most beautiful stones on the universe. It produces a lavish with modern and fashionable appearance to homes and other edifices. Regrettably it could mislay its manifestation due to wear and tear problematic situations like scraping, discoloration, erroneous cleaning etc. On the other hand, with the proper restoration process marble can be restored to its innovative and natural appearance.

Marble restoration organizations in Los Angeles obtain an assortment of marble restoration assignments, mostly dedicated towards in wedding gazeboes, marble decorations, stone floor decoration, marble polish, terrazzo cleaning, abrasive water jet cutting and Marble Bridge saw.

The procedure of marble polish in Los Angeles engages a mechanically pulverizing of the marble with metal diamonds, function of a tangible identifier and concluding polishing strides utilizing a resin foundation diamonds. A polished marble floor is hard, strong, sturdy, effortless to sustain and majorly stunning and the procedure could be useful for warehouse amenities, office buildings, retail stores and residences.

Marble restoration in Los Angeles compromises the utilization of CNC machines. It is a three- dimensional tool that performs a range of tasks like crushing, pulverizing, shining and carving. The majority of marble service provider corporate has setup their own CNC shops to reach to their demands of high exactitude, high pace and high competence even at the toughest cutthroat situation.

Water jet cutting apparatuses have the competence to incise marble without interfering with its inherent structure as there is no heat pretentious region. These water jet cutters are also competent of producing rather complicated slashes in marble. Water jet cutting is achieved by utilized a jet of water at high rapidity and force, or a combination of water and a rough essence to ape the natural procedure of water corrosion. It is the majority competent, cost effectual and fastest growing technique to slash substances.

Bridge saws are the majority popular machines in today’s industrial world and a diversity of them are obtainable in Los Angeles. Laser demeanor, Cast Iron Bridge, wired remote control, microcomputer controlled and touch screen (LCD) control panel are some aspects general to such machines.

These procedures facilitate in providing us with several of the premium marble fireplace, mantels and gazeboes, and stone fireplaces.

Distinct when first introduced, terrazzo floorings can now be preserved magnificently through the utilization of a range of restoration methods. A range of marble tuning suppliers provide strips cleaning in Los Angeles.

These service suppliers are outfitted to levy your strips meticulous make-up counting the Chip size, Chip allocation Chip kind and color and Matrix color. Once scrutinize is complete, a color equivalent Portland cement or epoxy resin is tailored, crammed with the proper marble chips as distinct by its category, dimension and color. After setting, it is sharpened flat and shined to make equivalent to the finish on your floor.

Additional to these marble services like absolute restoration, onslaught and New Installations, preservation, ceramic onslaught and sealing, specialty sealing, chronological reservation, blemish removal, lip page elimination and pressure washing services can also be availed in Los Angeles. For more information please visit www.marbleservices.com

About the Author

Marble Services California specializes in water jet metal, Granite bridge saw, cnc shop, CNC Machine, water jet, marble fireplace mantels, marble mantel, marble medallions, Stone Fireplace, stone gazebo, Stone Mantel, wedding gazebo.

Porcelain Mantel

 

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Interior Design Tip: Making A New Home 'old'

Let's face it: not everyone wants a home that looks spanking new. Due to the proliferation of too many homes which are dressed in a predictable contemporary style, people are exploring other options to distance themselves from cookie cutter design. And how do they do this? Some went the road less traveled by opting for unconventional themes like industrial or avant garde. Others decided to introduce a hint of history into their homes - Art Deco, Victorian, Retro-50's or Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie period fascinates them.

Making an old place new is easy - all you need is spend some money to get it renovated. Dressing up a new place to make it look like it was there for a longer period of time is not so straight-forward, although there are some simple tricks to do this. Antiques and vintage furniture immediately come to mind. But that's not all to it. Start with the walls. There are plenty of faux painting techniques for achieving a distressed look. Porter's Original Paints offers many suitable paint products to make the job easier too. Else, there is a wide range of wallpaper design to choose from in the market. For those who are more adventurous, raw materials like battered, unfinished brick walls also add decades to the design.

Color-wise, do take care that you don't choose something too bright and modern - muted, pastel tones often create a comfortable, nostalgic look. To neat freaks, junk and antiques shops can be like little shops of horror at times. With porcelain vases, well-worn colonial-style window frames and other bric-a-brac strewn on the floor, you wouldn't think you have a chance to squeeze through to the end of the shop and back without toppling a gramophone. But the fact is you'll seldom chance upon an artifact of exquisite craftsmanship and rich history unless you really get your hands dirty.

Ornate doors and screens are most commonly used in home decor to add visual interest. Where the theme suits, moldings and mantels add a lot of character to a room that is otherwise just a big white box.  

Don't overlook the finer details too. Vintage or retro accessories and lighting help to unify the entire theme, while shiny aluminum doorknobs and handles just don't speak 'old'. Add artwork from the era that inspired your home and you'll enjoy a living experience which offers the best of yesterday and today.

About the Author

Stanley Tham is a design consultant with KNQ Associates. His work has been featured in various publications and blogs like Home Concepts (Singapore), Modern Home (Hong Kong) and Apartment Therapy (U.S).

Find more interior design ideas on Stanley's blog Home Rejuvenation.

Desk Mantel

 

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Home decorating pros put up interior and exterior styles that look so easy on the eye. You won't have an inkling that to create that effect, home decorators consider many factors to achieve the desired result. Many of them have relied on a contemporary grandfather clock to give that spirited touch to many modern homes.

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People living in noisy and unfriendly cities long for a retreat that provides warmth, relaxation, and cheer. Those who can afford interior decorators can express that they want their homes to give them that serenity akin to their memories of home. And following the elements of contemporary decorating styles, home decorators add a timekeeper like the contemporary grandfather clock - with a twist.

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A Clock for City Digs

For the American country look in the parlor, the home decorator will propose some faux antiqued logs to depict the interiors of a log cabin in the woods to match with a firestone fireplace. A large sofa and smaller chairs around a focal low table laden with baskets of flowers will take up space.

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The Howard Miller Satinwood, designed with a minimalist focus, is very right for the minimalist home decorating theme. The black satinwood will break the monotony of the light-colored walls. By itself, this clock is a sharp study in contrast to the black satinwood and nickel pendulum and weights. The curved glasstop softens the entire look of the clock without detracting a fraction of its appearance.

The Viveka from Kieninger won't need any complementing piece. It has the ultra modern look, fusing light, silver, chrome, and glass. Nine tubes play the Westminster, St. Michaels, and Whittington chimes that are driven by the movement of a triple chime cable. To top it off, the anchor pivots are bedecked with 12 rubies.

Any contemporary grandfather clock will fit into any decorating schemes. Whether you want the country, pop, modern, or the minimalist look, the wide selection will always yield the right grandfather clock that will keep in time for years. Deciding to redecorate? Think of the contemporary grandfather clock.

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Passing strike

The most basic sort of striking clock simply sounds a bell once every hour. This sort of striking clock is called a passing strike clock. It is far simpler to create such a clock; all that must be done is to attach a cam to a shaft that rotates once an hour; the cam raises and then lets fall a hammer that strikes the bell. Originating before the mechanical clock itself, in water clocks, such clocks were the earliest striking clocks; they rang once for each canonical hour, and were used as reminders to summon monks or nuns to their prayers. This sort of striking is still found in some skeleton clocks. It does not require a separate gear train to arm and release the single stroke sounded.

The Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist monk and inventor Yi Xing (683727) created a rotating celestial globe that was given motive power by hydraulics of a turning waterwheel (acting as a large escapement), in the tradition of Zhang Heng (78139). This featured two wooden gear jacks on its horizon surface with a drum and a bell, the bell being struck automatically every hour and the drum being struck automatically every quarter hour. It is recorded that Confucian students in the year 730 were required to write an essay on this device in order to pass the Imperial examinations. The use of clock jacks to sound the hours were used in later clock towers of Song Dynasty China, such as those designed by Zhang Sixun and Su Song in the 10th and 11th centuries, respectively.

A striking clock outside of China was the clock tower near the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, which struck once every hour. It was constructed by the Arab engineer al-Kaysarani in 1154. The Florentine writer Dante Alighieri made a reference to the gear works of striking clocks in 1319. The most famous original striking clock tower still standing is possibly the one in St Mark's Clocktower in St Mark's Square, Venice. The St Mark's Clock was assembled in 1493, by the famous clockmaker Gian Carlo Rainieri from Reggio Emilia, where his father Gian Paolo Rainieri had already constructed another famous device in 1481. In 1497, Simone Campanato moulded the great bell (h. 1,56 m., diameter m. 1,27), which was put on the top of the tower where it's alternatively beaten by the Due Mori (Two Moors), two bronze statues (h. 2,60) handling a hammer.

Counting the hours

During the great wave of tower clock building in 14th century Europe, around the time of the invention of the mechanical clock itself, striking clocks were built that struck the bell multiple times, to count out the hours. The clock of the Beata Vergine (later San Gottardo) in Milan, built around 1330, was one of the earliest recorded that struck the hours. In 1335, Galvano Fiamma wrote:

There is there a wonderful clock, because there is a very large clapper which strikes a bell 24 times according to the 24 hours of the day and night, and thus at the first hour of the night gives one sound, at the second two strokes, and so distinguishes one hour from another, which is of greatest use to men of every degree.

The astronomical clock designed by Richard of Wallingford in 1327 and built around 1354, also struck 24 hours.

Some rare clocks use a form of striking known as "Roman Striking", where a large bell or lower tone is sounded to represent "five", and a small bell or high tone is sounded to represent "one". For example, the hour of four o'clock would be sounded as a high tone followed by a low tone, whereas the hour of eleven o'clock would be sounded by two low tones followed by a high tone. Clocks using this type of striking usually represent four o'clock on the dial with an "IV" rather than the more common "IIII".

Countwheel

Countwheel striking: the unequally spaced notches in the external countwheel on the right side of this tower clock movement regulate the number of times the bell is struck.

Two mechanisms have been devised by clockmakers to enable striking clocks to correctly count out the hours. The earlier, what appeared in the first striking clocks in the 14th century, is called countwheel striking. This uses a wheel that contains notches on its side, spaced by unequal, increasing arc segments. This countwheel governs the rotation of the striking train. When the striking train is released by the timekeeping train, a lever is lifted from a notch on the countwheel; the uneven notches allow the striking train to move only far enough to sound the correct number of times, after which the lever falls back into the next notch and stops the striking train from turning further.

The countwheel has the disadvantage of being entirely independent of the timekeeping train; if the striking train winds down, or for some other reason the clock fails to strike, the countwheel will become out of synch with the time shown by the hands, and must be resynchronized by manually releasing the striking train until it moves around to the correct position.

Rack striking

Rack striking: the snail-shaped cam (N) makes the clock sound the correct number of times by checking the fall of the rack (M).

In the late seventeenth century, rack striking was invented. Rack striking is so called because it is regulated by a rack and snail mechanism. The distance a rack is allowed to fall is determined by a snail-shaped cam, thereby regulating the number of times the bell is allowed to sound. The rack and snail was invented by British clergyman Edward Barlow in 1676.

The snail-shaped cam is a part of the timekeeping train that revolves every twelve hours; often, the snail is attached to the center wheel that drives the hour hand of the clock. Like the countwheel, the cam stops the striking train when the appropriate count has been reached. The diameter of the cam is largest at the one o'clock position, permitting the rack to move only a short distance, after which the striking train is stopped; it is smallest at the twelve o'clock position, which allows the rack to move the farthest.

Because it is linked to the timekeeping train, rack striking seldom becomes desynchronized from the hands. Rack striking also made possible the repeating clock, which can be made to repeat the last hour struck by pressing a button. Rack striking became the standard mechanism used in striking clocks down to the present.

Parts of mechanism

All hour striking mechanisms have these parts (the letters below refer to the diagram at left):

Power source - This is usually identical to the device that powers the clock's timekeeping mechanism: in weight driven clocks it is a second weight on a cord (P), in spring driven clocks it is another mainspring. Although older one-day (30-hour) clocks often used a single weight or mainspring to drive both the timekeeping and striking trains, better clocks used a separate power source, because the striking mechanism consumes a lot of power and often has to be wound more frequently, and also to isolate the delicate timekeeping train from the large movements that occur in the striking train. Winding a striking clock requires winding both the timing and striking parts separately.

Striking train - This is a gear train (G,H) that scales down the force of the power source and transmits it to the hammer mechanism which rings the gong. In antique clocks, to lower the manufacturing cost, it was often exactly the same as the timing train that ran the clock's timekeeping part, and installed parallel to it, on the left side as one faces the clock.

Regulator - A device to prevent the striking train from running too fast, and control the speed of striking. If it wasn't present, the striking train when released would run out of control under the force of the spring or weight. In most clocks it is a simple fan fly (K), a flat piece of sheet metal mounted on the fastest turning gear shaft. When the striking train turns, this beats the air, and the air friction limits the speed of the train. Striking watches and some modern clocks use a centrifugal governor instead.

Count mechanism - This is the critical part mentioned above, that releases the striking train at the proper time and counts out the proper number of strikes. It is the only part of the striking mechanism that is attached to the clock's timekeeping works. Virtually all modern clocks use the rack and snail. The snail (N) is usually mounted on the clock's center wheel shaft, which turns once every 12 hours. There is also a release lever (L) which on the hour releases the rack and allows the timing train to turn.

Hammer and gong - The hammer lever (F) is actuated by pins or teeth (G) on one of the striking train wheels. As the wheel turns the pin lifts the hammer lever, until the lever slips off the pin, allowing the hammer to drop, hitting the gong (E). Early house clocks used traditional hemispherical shaped bells. Later house clocks used gongs made of long steel tubes or bars, which have a sound more like large church bells. Mantel and other small clocks use thick hardened steel wires, which are coiled into a spiral to save space.

Clocks that have more elaborate functions than just striking the hours, such as chiming the quarter hours, or playing tunes, are called 'chiming clocks' by clockmakers. The additional functions are usually run by a second complete striking mechanism separate from the (hour) striking train, called the chiming train. These clocks have three weights or mainsprings, to power the timing train, striking train, and chiming train.

How it works

The release lever (L) holds the rack (M) up when the clock is not striking. On the shaft of the minute hand (not shown), which rotates once per hour, there is a projection. As the change of the hour approaches, this projection slowly lifts the release lever, allowing the rack to fall until its point rests on the snail (N). The amount the rack can fall, and thus the number of strikes, is determined by the position of the snail. Exactly on the hour the striking train is released and begins to turn. As it turns, the pins (G) repeatedly lift the hammer (F) and allow it to drop, ringing the gong (E). The gear ratios are arranged so that the gear wheel (H) makes one revolution each strike. A small pin (S) on this wheel engages the rack teeth, lifting the rack up by one tooth each turn. When the rack reaches the end of its teeth it stops the striking train from turning. So the number of strikes is equal to the number of teeth of the rack which are used, which depends on the position of the snail.

Types of striking clocks

Specialized types of striking clocks:

Chiming clock - Strikes on the hours and chimes on the quarter hours, often playing fragments of a tune such as Westminster Quarters.

Repeater - a striking clock which can repeat the strikes at the push of a lever, for telling the time in the dark.

Musical clock - plays tunes on a music box in addition to counting the time

Automaton clock - with mechanically animated figures that periodically perform various displays, usually as a part of the clock striking the hours.

Cuckoo clock - a specific type of automaton clock which originated in Germany, which displays an animated bird and plays imitation birdcalls in addition to striking on a bell or gong.

Ship's bell clock - strikes the ship's bells of a nautical watch instead of the hours.

Some quartz clocks also contain speakers and sound chips that electronically imitate the sounds of a chiming or striking clock. Other quartz striking clocks use electrical power to strike bells or gongs.

Notes

^ Milham, Willis I. (1945). Time and Timekeepers. New York: MacMillan. p. 197. ISBN 0780800087. 

^ Needham, Volume 4, Part 2, 473475.

^ Needham, Volume 4, Part 2, 475.

^ Needham, Volume 4, Part 2, 165.

^ Abdel Aziz al-Jaraki (2007), When Ridhwan al-Sati Anteceded Big Ben by More than Six Centuries, Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation

^ Needham, Volume 4, Part 2, 445.

^ Boardman, Pete. "Why do clocks show 12 hours?". History. 24 Hour Clocks and Watches. http://homepage.mac.com/pete.boardman/24hourclock/history/index.html. Retrieved April 23, 2008. 

^ British Horological Institute, Workshop on Roman Numeral Clock Faces, 1999. See also FAQ: Roman IIII vs. IV on Clock Dials

^ Milham, Willis I. (1945). Time and Timekeepers. New York: MacMillan. ISBN 0780800087.  p.197

^ "Rack Striking". Encyclopedia of Antiques. Old and Sold Antique Marketplace. http://www.oldandsold.com/articles02/clocks-r.shtml. Retrieved 2008-04-20. 

^ Milham, Willis I. (1945). Time and Timekeepers. New York: MacMillan. ISBN 0780800087.  p.202-204

References

Eric Bruton, The History of Clocks and Watches (Time Warner, repr. 2002) ISBN 0-316-72426-2

David Landes, Revolution in time: Clocks and the making of the modern world Harvard University Press (1983) ISBN 0-674-76802-7

Needham, Joseph (1986). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering. Tapei: Caves Books Ltd.

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