Bells, hammers and gongs

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This is a close-up of a 4-hammer Telavox movement striking the hours and half hours on rod gongs. The levers activated by the movement lift two hammers each via two wires.

The strike silencing plate, operated by a lever underneath the case, lowers onto the gongs but leaves the hammers free to rise and fall.

If the hammers were restrained the clock would not strike, the clock would not be rewound and the clock would stop.




An unusual Telavox striking on a bell.


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