Happisburgh Time and Tide Bell

 

I was intrigued by this recent story.

A bell has been installed on Happisburgh beach. As this BBC story says...

"A giant bell that chimes when the tide comes in and goes out has been installed on a Norfolk beach.

The Happisburgh Time and Tide Bell has been put on the sand at Happisburgh beach and chimed officially for the first time. The creation of sculptor Marcus Vergette, it is one of 13 planned for the UK coastline, intended to highlight rising sea levels and global warming. An official launch took place at 11:00 BST on the cliffs. The tide was expected to come in after midday.

At high tide the bell would be partially covered - at which point it would "murmur" rather than chime, said Robert Payne, chair of the Happisburgh Time and Tide Bell group, which fundraised for the artwork. Made from marine bronze, he said it stood about 2.5m (8ft) tall.

The rise of the water at high tide moves the clapper to strike the bell and "played by the movement of the waves, the bell creates a varying, gentle, musical pattern", organisers said.

A poster attached to the bell said its frame was made from an oak tree planted in 1790 and felled in 2001."

I would love to see and here it. I followed up by visiting the site of the organisation behind it - Time and Tide Bell. I never knew you could create a bell that sounded multiple notes. Listen to the Trinity Buoy Wharf bell that hangs above the Thames in London here.