Word: clapper
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Until a new clapper is constructed, the bell will not ring at its usual hours-8:45 a.m. and on the hour until 4 p.m. during the week and 11 a.m. on Sundays, said Daniel F. Murphy, the HPRE property manager...
When Murphy first saw the damaged clapper, it was piercing the edge of the steeple, on a white copper cornice above its brick section...
According to LeBlanc, the clapper is designed to remain stationary while the rotating two-ton bell strikes the clapper...
...force of the bell broke off the clapper because of metal fatigue, LeBlanc said. He also blamed the high winds on Thursday night and Friday morning...
They called to tell him that they could not find the clapper...