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28th Feb 2020, 8:23 pm | #41 | |
Dekatron
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Greater Manchester, UK.
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Re: BBC Time Pips
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"No one seems to have seen a need for this degree of precision, but early broadcasts did use their own ad hoc ‘pips’, marking the 8pm and 9pm news programmes with a time signal consisting of the announcer playing the Westminster chimes on a piano and later a set of tubular bells." Many of us in our 60s will not read "Tubular Bells" without thinking about Mike Oldfield's album. This may be well known, but I didn't know about it until last night, whilst looking up time signal stuff for this thread. (Last 7 paragraphs) https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/li...n-code-3109812 Now don't get me wrong, I'm not at all surprised that this happened, but when I think of how I used my copy of T.B. as test source to put my turntables and amps through their paces, it just seems appropriate somehow.
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29th Feb 2020, 11:12 am | #42 |
Triode
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Cirencester, Gloucestershire, UK.
Posts: 15
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Re: BBC Time Pips
The inadvertent 'hidden' message on Tubular Bells was most interesting. Thank you for that little amusement and the most informative IET link.
So, are the 'pips' still used for anything useful / I did like the racing pigeon story too. |