Word: clapper
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During a memorial service yesterday, a steel pin holding the bell's 300-pound clapper in place broke for the second time this year, rendering the regular computer-operated ringing mechanism inoperable, said Marie Cloutier-Diflo, administrative assistant for Memorial Church...
...April 13--Good Friday, as it happened--the original pin that held the clapper in place severed, putting the bell out of commission for two-and-a-half weeks. After that event, which Memorial Church officials say was completely unexpected, Scott Haywood of Harvard Real Estate brought the bell to the Engineering Sciences Laboratory to have a new pin cast from milled steel...
...Additional weight ended up being added to the clapper," said Cloutier-Diflo, explaining that the change might have contributed to the second collapse...
...bronze bell was cast for Memorial Church by the Taylor Bell foundry in 1926, and has been in daily use ever since despite some occasional problems. According to Cloutier-Diflo, 15-20 years ago, the clapper swung out of the belfry while the bell was ringing and landed on the steps of Widener Library, directly across the Yard. No injuries were reported, she said...
...from below, they bounce back into the interior, where the greater heat bends them toward the surface again. The result, says astronomer Robert Noyes of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a "sun ringing like a bell, but not one that is being struck by a clapper. Rather, it is vibrating somewhat like a bell suspended in a sandstorm, continuously struck by tiny grains of sand...