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ideavian · 22 days

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Chimes design!

#rain world oc #rain world #art #chimes #eternal enigma

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green5quirrel · 2 months

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TL;DR: I think Monroe's striking and chiming clocks were underutilized for truly hilarious interruptions when the hour strikes and 5 or so clocks announce it in sync.

I think we've all looked over a very important detail in Nick having stayed over at Monroe's for a time. I feel like I REALLY want someone to explore this in a fanfiction of some sort.

Monroe has several "striking" clocks in his house. A striking clock (or just clock for those who differentiate clocks as striking and timepieces as non-striking) makes sounds every hour, half hour, or can chime every quarter hour depending on the number of mechanisms.

Monroe obviously has a grandfather clock (or grandmother clock as I'm not sure the height of it) thanks to him telling Hap not to touch it. So that is definitely a striking and chime clock. Or has the potential to be as such if it's not silenced. He also has potentially more than one cuckoo clock.

Can you imagine the absolute terror of a person who has never been in a house with more than one striking clock as it hits the hour or half hour for the first time.

Now, ideally Monroe will have silenced most of his clocks. I don't know. I don't have any working clocks. I don't know how most horologists do things at their private homes. If they find the striking nostalgic or welcomed. But let's err on the side that Monroe has been living alone for a long time and actually does find a few chimes and striking nostalgic after growing up with it as his dad seemed to also be into clocks.

Let's layer this with the fact that Nick has very sensitive hearing (though I'm not sure when that happens. I could have my timelines wrong). Despite that, you're just getting to sleep at around 11pm or midnight and for some reason have been oblivious to or accepting of the chimes during the day. Or this is your first night in your friend, Monroe's, house and suddenly the first floor below you erupts in various chimes and tunes.

Can you imagine?!

I'm actually kind of astounded that this was never properly explored in the. In not one scene does any of Monroe's clocks strike despite how long everyone is at his house. I mean, if I had clocks I'd at least appreciate one of them striking.

The point is, I really want to either write or read a fanfiction where either Rosalee or Nick or Hank experiences the sound of an hour in the most unexpected way and grumpily complains to a completely and adorably oblivious Monroe.

(It would also have been a great gag if in the middle of a dramatic conversation it struck the top of the hour and Monroe patiently waits for his clocks to sound off before continuing. And Nick/whoever he's talking to is just like "Seriously dude?" And he's like, "What? ...fine! I'll silence them. Jeez! I didn't ask you to be here anyway, man!")

#Monroe Grimm #Grimm Monroe #NBC Grimm #Grimm NBC #horology #clocks #striking mechanisms #grandfather clock #grandmother clock #chimes #hitting REM to Westminster playing out with 12 fucking chimes after #Nick Burkhardt #Hank Griffon #Rosalee Calvert #The cacophony though #Grimm thoughts

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heysye · 3 months

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more marker doodles lately

#my art #my ocs #clockwork #chimes #kipabell #pokemon #pikachu #keroro #sgt frog #ive been liking the feeling of the markers on paper lately #i dont care anymore about making clean lines #i like sketching with my colored pencils so i can just do that then color with markers #it feels grounding #clockwork especially has been fun so you shall see him again soon probably (if i remember to post here)

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ut-poppy-askblog · 8 months

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In Which Poppy enacts a product Recall

(It's nice to finally get around to resume work on the Poppy's Story comics. There is a lot more to catch up on. Happy 4th anniversary, folks!)

#undertale au #undertale oc #undertale #undertale au #ot poppy fanart #ot poppy #comic #ask poppy 2 #undertale otherground #hui #chimes #rosmarus #omega timeline

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soothifying-sounds-asmr · 1 year

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Jingle Jangle by wintersoulsis

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thepastisalreadywritten · 4 months

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31 December 2023

#New Year #New Year's Eve #New Year 2024 #2024 #Big Ben #BBC #UK #100 years #AG Dryland #bongs #chimes #sound #Happy New Year #Happy New Year 2024

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 1 year

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Psychic Observer & CHIMES, Vol.XXXVI, N.5, Nov.-Dec. 1975

#witches #psychics #occult #vintage #psychic observer & chimes #observers #psychic observer #chimes #november december #1975 #ESPress Inc

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hermeticbridgetroll · 6 months

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Wind in the trees on a crisp fall day.

#fall #autumn #october #cottagecore #wind #sound on #chimes

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vaporwave-trolls · 4 months

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i offer up a redrawn chimes without her brother

#mooma doodles #fantrolls #chimes

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things-about-cars-in-posts · 5 months

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Hello! question for you? do you have a favorite car lock/unlock chime?

Hello! Answer for you:

That's a very hard opinion for me to form because here cars don't have them, we just trust car owners to be able to tell that the car that made the clunking sound and indicators flash it does when it locks its doors locked its doors. Which is partly why this answer comes to you well over two weeks after your asked me, as I just didn't know what to do with it.

So I could answer that my favorite chime is around 6:38 in this video, which I recommend you don't skip to because the rest of the video is great too...

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...but if that feels like cheating to you, well, I'm out of answers.

So I will just talk horns and chimes some more until you're satisfied.

My mother's Citroën had this seatbelt chime, which I found pretty endearing, but without the peculiarity herein described. (It should start at 11:41, just in case it doesn't for you.)

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My father's Audi had this calm, soothing chime which perfectly suited its soothing comfort, yet always reminded me of something...

2000s Renaults had a talking vehicle computer!

And if that sounds like a very 80s thing, well, you're absolutely right!

Chrysler's Electronic Voice Alert, or EVA, was an option made available in the mid-80s that used the Texas Instruments' LPC Speech Chip you know and love from the Speak & Spell.

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Unfortunately, while that was just a warnings list, many of those were spoken quite frequently, in part due to the vehicles in question being mid-80s Chrysler products, leading to the system swiftly getting on people's nerves, and in the models before a switch to turn it off was included owners resorted to pulling the fuse, which in some cases disabled the fuel gauge. Welp.

But that was not the only system nor first system of its kind: there was, in 1983, the MG Maestro's system.

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If that voice sounds familiar, its voice actress Nicolette McKenzie had starred in John Sichel's Merchant Of Venice. If you're not from that side of Tumblr, she also starred in Horizon: Zero Dawn. A monotonous career path sure doesn't seem to be among her problems.

But this system was not the first either: some '81 to '84 Nissans (or Datsuns, as those were the very years that brand name, created for American shores, was getting phased out) used a Voice Warning system that used an even earlier technology than TI's chip (that's Texas Instrument's LPC speech synthesizing integrated circuits, not the money of trap music pioneer T.I.): a phonograph.

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This wasn't a novel approach either, phonograph-based warning systems being used in late '70s-early '80s appliances and toys, and in-car record players having been a thing even prior!

In fact, to paraphrase Dr. Doofenshmirtz, If I had a nickel for every time I wrote about in-car phonographs, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

Although in 1985 Nissan too went electronic for their voice warning system - here's the warnings from those systems over a bad MIDI cover of Thrift Shop.

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And that's without even getting into custom door chimes!

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And boy will I ever get into custom chimes once I get to that section of my Miata Mod Master Mᴉsɥlᴉsʇ (that's "Wishlist" upside down), which by my estimations should be about April 2024. So keep your eyes peeled!

Links in blue are posts of mine about the topic in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

#chimes #citroën c6 #audi a4 #chrysler laser #mg maestro #datsun #nissan #nissan maxima #volvo 240

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ideavian · 12 days

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