Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feet in diameter, and when they are rung every beam of the tower trembles. The largest bell, the Mother Earth Bell, weighs 13 tons. It is rung at the beginning and end of each concert and it takes two people standing inside its maw to swing the giant clapper between them. The brute force of that bronze behemoth and its lesser brothers, spilling out into the drowsy air of the Square, is well worth a dissonance...
Admittedly, Dartboard's Thayer and Canaday Hall residents have gotten lazy with our prayers since the clapper on Memorial Church's bell broke a couple of months ago. Beginning in September, we each woke from our peaceful slumber at a quarter 'till nine and counted 134 chimes of the bell before returning to a rather fitful sleep. Unfortunately the winds have changed, and our days of sleeping in have come to a close...
...only damage to Memorial church is some minor piercing where the clapper struck the copper cornice--damage still visible from the Canaday courtyard...
...then sent two workers to climb and inspect the tower. They informed him they could not find the clapper...
Walking through the Canaday court-yard to the church, Murphy eventually found the clapper...