Friday, November 23, 2012

The bells of St. Brigid's [VIDEO]

I was hanging around in Tompkins Square Park this morning... and I finally heard the bells coming from St. Brigid's on Avenue B... excuse the rushed quality to the video... dropped everything (50 pounds of bread for the rats, etc.) to record this...



A commenter had this to say on our post the other day:

Well, all you tin-eared tintinabulists....These are not real church bells---rather a clever assemblage of recorded sounds run through well placed speakers...And they aren't coordinated with real time merely an approximation-Can't the priest check his cell-phone to at least be accurate?...The original bell was amazing and it was removed and not reinstalled for reasons that remain a troubling mystery. These recorded sounds are horrible and as fake as Hostess Twinkies. As a neighbor who lives quite close to the church I wish they would stop them completely.

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3 comments:

  1. dmhNovember 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM

    Add a bit of autotune and they'll be great.

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  2. BabyDaveNovember 23, 2012 at 7:32 PM

    Seems a shame that, as quality a job seems to have been done in the bulk of the restoration, electronic sound was chosen over real chiming.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 26, 2012 at 1:16 PM

    Something tells me that if this were a mosque and call to prayer, the pseudo intellectuals wouldn't have a beef with it.

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