2009-07-17
post/143483419
quote 14:41:14
“ I think we are supposed to find the sound of Big Ben friendly and reassuring, but I’m with Mrs Dalloway. I have always found it faintly depressing – melancholy, relentless, tuneless. The hour bell cracked in 1857 before it was even hung and has been slightly off a perfect E, and slowly deteriorating, ever since. ”
Joe Moran, on The Big Ben dissidents. candace always said to me that the hour bell was slightly out of tune, but I’m tone deaf, so I never noticed.
