This video is a comparison of present day Big Ben chimes and the rare 1890 audio recording one. Big Ben: en.wikipedia.o... Audio File: simple.m.wikip...
If you mentally remove those warps off the old recording, you can clearly hear that at that time bells actually sounded better. They were newer and were of their best pitch.
Can't really know what frequencies were amplified in those old recorders. It may be an involuntary edit because of time passed since then and the recording medium
Logically, either the bells sounded the same as they do now or they sounded even better, owing to being fairly new. But the poor quality of Victorian sound recording equipment does them no favours. If anything, it makes Big Ben sound drunk.
It sounds like the wax cylinder or whatever it was recorded on has warped some for the 1890 recording, but you can definately make out what it must have sounded like from it.
Lucas Burchill it’s not fake Big Ben was made in 1850’s and I know that there were no TVs and no cameras at all but they used a audio box to hear Big Ben and also it was 40 years back in the time.
Other people: OMG the 1890 recording of the bell scares me! Me, a person who knows that it's just due to the low quality of recordings back then: I like it
If the noises and warping audio were removed, the bells would have been very clear to hear, especially Big Ben. The very first decade of the 20th century was when vehicles became to be made across the world, and that means Big Ben truly was heard for many miles as told by the tower’s owners. But now with London being very busy 24/7, the bells can be heard at least across the river in London, but not that much further than that.
If you turn down the volume of your device and listen to the 1890 one, it sounds less weird and probably more like how it _actually_ sounded back then.
The 1890 one just sounds like the batteries are low... Source: I have a clock that plays the Westminster chime (the same piece of music as Big Ben plays) and it sounds similarly warped when the batteries are about to die.
This answers a lot of questions I had. Whenever I hear the present day chimes I hear F A G C, F G A F, A F G C, C G A F. I read somewhere that it’s actually supposed to be tuned a half step lower. When I heard the 1890 chimes I heard the notes as E, G#, F#, B, and so on. I guess after 160 years of the bells being struck in the exact same spots the tuning has gone out of wack. The bells may be tuned in E but today it sounds like they’re chiming in F.
"Expect the first spirit when the bell tolls one. Expect the second the next night at the same hour. And the third apon the next night when the last stroke of twelve has ceased to vibrate"
In 1976 the Chiming train suffered a catastrophic failure which broke the drum that rings out the Westminster chimes. As a result, they had to have that particular part remade which slowed down the chimes by a fraction. If u listen to any recording of the chimes before 1976 you will hear that they are a tiny bit faster then the present day chimes.
The 1890 chime sounded creepy because of the recording device they used the tech then isn't that advance so if ur in 1890 you'll hwar the same as present.
From what I can hear the 1890 sound was in a lower tonality. I guess the rest is just the distortion because of old recordings and all that. I kinda prefer the actual one, sounds better to me.
I have to add the wax recording was slowed down on the transmission end. Please speed it up slightly and use a pitch attenuators to use the present bell chime as a reference to match the actual sound pitches up.
I'm curious to know where the 1890 recording was. I'm thinking either at the foot of the tower, on Westminster Bridge, on the court between the palace and Westminster Abbey, or right up on the belfry.
The recording was made atop the clock tower itself. There was no electronic amplification until 1925. The 1890 recording is the sound energy itself against a diaphragm to which the attached stylus cuts directly sound sound wave to a rotating wax cylinder.
Tape didn’t exist in 1890, this old chime was done on an Edison Wax Cylinder, much like a record, but these were cylindrical, as tge name is implying, and they could not keep a constant speed, it was always fluctuating.
There used to be a pizzeria called “Freddy’s”, the chimes only played at 6 AM, when the early workers arrived, they served great pizza, and they had these robot animals who sang songs for the kids. The place closed in 1993, when they broke down after being modified to stay still by a hacker.
Do you think that the 1890 of Big Ben chimes are Terrified and Weird??? and Do you think that the "Present Day" of Big Ben chimes are Calming and Good???
Well, for me the De 1890 must sound better, because at the time Big Ben wasn't even 100 years old, so he was younger, it's just because of the recording that is from 100 years ago, the one today is very great, But it must sound worse because it's older, since it's almost 200 years old now, not to mention it wasn't cracked in the past.
If you mentally remove those warps off the old recording, you can clearly hear that at that time bells actually sounded better. They were newer and were of their best pitch.
Can't really know what frequencies were amplified in those old recorders. It may be an involuntary edit because of time passed since then and the recording medium
Can't wait to hear what it sounds like after the repairs, I was crying when I watched the last chimes in 2017.
@@KippoKupo everyone was crying though 😅
or it could be just the recording
The warps could be removed with an app called Capstan, if the app didn’t cost €3,790.
Logically, either the bells sounded the same as they do now or they sounded even better, owing to being fairly new. But the poor quality of Victorian sound recording equipment does them no favours. If anything, it makes Big Ben sound drunk.
Kate Cooper lol
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Ikr
A crack formed between then and now and has affected the sound. There was an attempt to repair it, but Londoners prefer the sound with the crack
@@JJ-si4qh in big ben?
1890 sounds weird because of static noises.
They only had old recorded audio boxes back then. They had cameras around 1925.
And the warped audio
@@loganthevillager9176 They had cameras back then but it couldn't have audio till the 30's I think
@@crystxlzx6442 that's right and the Charly Chaplin was one of the first to use it as well as luarul and hardy series
Logan The Octoling completely wrong
It sounds like the wax cylinder or whatever it was recorded on has warped some for the 1890 recording, but you can definately make out what it must have sounded like from it.
Lucas Burchill it’s not fake Big Ben was made in 1850’s and I know that there were no TVs and no cameras at all but they used a audio box to hear Big Ben and also it was 40 years back in the time.
Not only that, but Edison Cylinder recorders never had a constant speed, they wouldn’t have sounded much better than this.
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1890 scares me o god
edit: yes i know its bcus of the sound quality
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Spoopy ghost bell
Well it was a pretty scary time to be living In the UK with spring heeled jack and jack the ripper and stuff
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1890: *_*terrifying chimes_**
Bruh
Oh hey its a tower now im crushed oof
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Wow Big Ben
Bruh
People: the 1890's one is creepy
Me:so y'all scared of a wax cylinder recording a clock from 100 years ago?
Some harry potter fan ͔ not even a 100 years ago
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That sounded solid
Other people: OMG the 1890 recording of the bell scares me!
Me, a person who knows that it's just due to the low quality of recordings back then: I like it
Same
Present day: Bing Bong Bing Bong, Bing Bong Bing Bong.
1890: Binonging Bongingong Bingoning Bongingong, Bingonging Bongingong Bingonging Bongingong
Why did this comment make me laugh💀
They do be frying eggs in the background
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Bruh 😂
If the noises and warping audio were removed, the bells would have been very clear to hear, especially Big Ben. The very first decade of the 20th century was when vehicles became to be made across the world, and that means Big Ben truly was heard for many miles as told by the tower’s owners.
But now with London being very busy 24/7, the bells can be heard at least across the river in London, but not that much further than that.
It is fascinating to hear these chimes of two different eras back to back. Both wonderful.
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1890=Big Ben drunk
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Ben leave
I gave him too much vodka
If you turn down the volume of your device and listen to the 1890 one, it sounds less weird and probably more like how it _actually_ sounded back then.
Took ya advice! I prefer older version better.
The 1890 one just sounds like the batteries are low...
Source: I have a clock that plays the Westminster chime (the same piece of music as Big Ben plays) and it sounds similarly warped when the batteries are about to die.
@@LeonardoFruet its a joke WHY CAN NO ONE TAKE A JOKE, its not fully a joke but its true
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What?
They've managed to clear up a lot of the static and background noise since the 1890s. Sometimes progress is a good thing
Honestly it unsettles me how many times the bell is struck, and how old it is. I’m sitting here thinking that the bell is going to fall off one day
It's currently 2 am and I don't think I'm going back to sleep for the next month
Same 2:21 am
I know this commet is from 2 years ago but over from an bell?
This answers a lot of questions I had. Whenever I hear the present day chimes I hear F A G C, F G A F, A F G C, C G A F. I read somewhere that it’s actually supposed to be tuned a half step lower. When I heard the 1890 chimes I heard the notes as E, G#, F#, B, and so on. I guess after 160 years of the bells being struck in the exact same spots the tuning has gone out of wack. The bells may be tuned in E but today it sounds like they’re chiming in F.
same! I was so confused when i read the Wikipedia article and I thought my ears have completely let me down lol
@@leezab5850 FINALLY! Someone who understands what I'm saying!
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present day big ben is older so it sounds more clean
1890 is younger so it has some voice cracks
now thats big brain
well technically it was 40 years old at the time of recording so not that young but i get the joke
Could you imagine being on the streets or even at home late at night and hearing this clock, it'd be really creepy
Yeah, it would be cool, for me atleast. I really like Westminster clocks, especially Big Ben.
Jxy Bxndz especially the 1980 one
uhh basically its not that the sound are creepy the recorder was the one that makes it creepy
No. It would be such a warm comforting sound.
"Expect the first spirit when the bell tolls one. Expect the second the next night at the same hour. And the third apon the next night when the last stroke of twelve has ceased to vibrate"
1890 Recording
Reminds me of Salad Fingers
I don't know why
WTF 😆
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I've got no idea how you came to this conclusion but you're absolutely goddamn right
In 1976 the Chiming train suffered a catastrophic failure which broke the drum that rings out the Westminster chimes. As a result, they had to have that particular part remade which slowed down the chimes by a fraction. If u listen to any recording of the chimes before 1976 you will hear that they are a tiny bit faster then the present day chimes.
The 1890 one makes it sound like the Palace of Westminster is burning down, yet Big Ben still triumphantly chimes.
Kid:mom can we have big ben?
Mom:we have big ben at home
Big ben at home: 1:37
1:37
1:46
It will be good to hear what it sounds like when it is refirbished
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Creepy sounding bell
I'm sure people slept well at night
The 1890 chime sounded creepy because of the recording device they used the tech then isn't that advance so if ur in 1890 you'll hwar the same as present.
I mean, its 1890 for god sake
From what I can hear the 1890 sound was in a lower tonality. I guess the rest is just the distortion because of old recordings and all that. I kinda prefer the actual one, sounds better to me.
The 1890 reminded me just spamming the keys on the piano
1890 sounds like an Earl Sweatshirt sample
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not finny
It warps hard in 1890
1890 Chimes is like Big Ben but *CURSED.*
what the fuck are you thinking? do you fucking think they would have todays technology back then like bro, what the fucks wrong wit u
Tip: Listen with headphones. It makes a big difference.
Present- Beautifully Chimes
1890's- OMG EAR RAPES
1890 sounds like fire and a crooked bell
1 year left till Big Ben chimes again!!
1890: What it feels like when cooking eggs in an old haunted house.
1890: hotdogs cooking in the background
1890 Chime is the one i hear in anime all the time
1890 is creepy because the sound quality
edit: XD IT SOUNDED FRYING EGGS
Big Ben haunted in the 1890s :D
“This is London....”
0:38 The present day Big Ben sound reminds me of our old vintage wall watch that you can operate it with a key
21flores lizviolet what does the old one remind you of?
@@DiamondBFIC no
big ben ding ding ding ding dong ding ding dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong
The old one is just creepy
Not sure if the restoration of the bells will affect their sound but maybe they will sound more in tune like they formerly did
I hope so, I will be looking forward to it.
The 1890 Ones are freaking scary
damaged recording. same with the degraded titanic whistle recording in 1935
Yo Big Ben is almost like 200 years old wow 177 year old grandpa beautiful Big Ben clock
From what I heard it's under restoration for another year
big ben in 1890: *voice crack ding*
its not really creepy
He was built in 1859
I have to add the wax recording was slowed down on the transmission end. Please speed it up slightly and use a pitch attenuators to use the present bell chime as a reference to match the actual sound pitches up.
Such an old clock he is
at the old one the bell is still new so it sounded like that
He has been shut down for repairs
I’m listening to this at 1am and waking up my neighbours
The 1890 one is quite scary
If u want to skip the present day 1:37
@Kaiser Wilhelm II because Some news i think everbody sees it so i made to skip it
VIET NAM?
I'm curious to know where the 1890 recording was. I'm thinking either at the foot of the tower, on Westminster Bridge, on the court between the palace and Westminster Abbey, or right up on the belfry.
The recording was made atop the clock tower itself. There was no electronic amplification until 1925. The 1890 recording is the sound energy itself against a diaphragm to which the attached stylus cuts directly sound sound wave to a rotating wax cylinder.
| 0:15 |Present time| 1:46 |1890 recording|
Los dos suena hermoso pero el que más el de 1890
99% of comments: 1890 is so scary 1% actual comments
When you tune the chime with baroque tuning it's raining.
1890 is warped itself
Did they have to scramble bacon and eggs during the 1890 version?
1890's version is disturbing and creepy
1890s bigben sounds scary af
The 1890 Version Is A Very Creepy Lost Recording
0:16 PART OF PRESENT
1:45 ITS AN OLD PART OF ENGLAND
The Chimes ARE SO VERY FAST I CANT GET IT(1890)
CHIMES ARE NOW SLOWER AND I GET IT (PRESENT)
Omg that 1890 is so good for halloween
Everyone who was alive back in 1890 are now all deceased
Big Ben in 1890, Chime cracking because the Big Ben hit puberty.
Actually, it sounds the same despite the poor quality way back then.
12:00 AM playing this.
Same
8:16 am playing this
1890 sounds like asgore's theme but scarier
Of Big Ben
I'm the only one that 1890 big Ben isn't scary
Me four
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Same
Me too the 1890 sound is actually nicer than the present one
I'm just here for all the Londoners simping for Big Ben
Can modern technology not remove JUST the static etc. noise from the 1890 recording?
Richard Hopkins+ We could, yes, but it might damage the recording itself. Which we don’t want to do.
1890, sounds like someones fryin eggs there.
The 1980 recordings had more tone to them (ignoring the warped and static noises).
1890
1890 sounds like they are frying something
The 1890s is specifically a bit creepy because the people and the recorders are all dead
This is the last chime
Why did they cook eggs in the 1890 recording?
1890
1890
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Me: EGGS AND POSSESSED BELLS!!!!!!!
eggs are foods with foods inside them
1890 big ben sounds great what do y'all mean?
The present day was big bens final chimes for 4 years lol
So the Chimes went from once every 5 Seconds to once every 4 seconds oh, that is unless the tape speed is off.
Tape didn’t exist in 1890, this old chime was done on an Edison Wax Cylinder, much like a record, but these were cylindrical, as tge name is implying, and they could not keep a constant speed, it was always fluctuating.
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i love the present day,not the 1890 its scray and frying eggs??
is it just me or do the bells sound lower pitched in 1980
0:16 Oh boy! That means I win! I get to live another day!
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There used to be a pizzeria called “Freddy’s”, the chimes only played at 6 AM, when the early workers arrived, they served great pizza, and they had these robot animals who sang songs for the kids.
The place closed in 1993, when they broke down after being modified to stay still by a hacker.
You could've just said it reminded you of Five Nights At Freddy's...
Mate... you could have just said that it was a FNAF reference
The 1890s one isn't spokky because if you could time travel to 1890it would have sounded the same
1890 is broken? Is so scared me
Do you think that the 1890 of Big Ben chimes are Terrified and Weird???
and Do you think that the "Present Day" of Big Ben chimes are Calming and Good???
1890 is creepy
0:16 21 August 2017
We had the Solar Eclipse that day from where I lived.
Rip the Big Ben 1859-2017 😞 but it should return I’m 2021
@Bigboss Kid hi 2021
@@loganthevillager9176 America? South America?
@@memekam77 North America. *Obviously.*
1890 recording sound low battery
It sounds like that TickTock filter
Well, for me the De 1890 must sound better, because at the time Big Ben wasn't even 100 years old, so he was younger, it's just because of the recording that is from 100 years ago, the one today is very great, But it must sound worse because it's older, since it's almost 200 years old now, not to mention it wasn't cracked in the past.
I don’t believe Big Ben still chimes to this day...
I mean, it does...
No, for the tower is under a major repair now
It does -_-
@@kanromusic it didn't when I posted that comment... ages ago
1890: *E G G S*