If you mentally remove those warps off the old recording, you can clearly hear that at that time bells actually sounded better. They were newer and were of their best pitch.

1890 scares me o god edit: yes i know its bcus of the sound quality

Logically, either the bells sounded the same as they do now or they sounded even better, owing to being fairly new. But the poor quality of Victorian sound recording equipment does them no favours. If anything, it makes Big Ben sound drunk.

1890: *_*terrifying chimes_**

People: the 1890's one is creepy Me:so y'all scared of a wax cylinder recording a clock from 100 years ago?

1890 sounds weird because of static noises.

1890=Big Ben drunk

Present day: Bing Bong Bing Bong, Bing Bong Bing Bong. 1890: Binonging Bongingong Bingoning Bongingong, Bingonging Bongingong Bingonging Bongingong

Other people: OMG the 1890 recording of the bell scares me! Me, a person who knows that it's just due to the low quality of recordings back then: I like it

It sounds like the wax cylinder or whatever it was recorded on has warped some for the 1890 recording, but you can definately make out what it must have sounded like from it.

Kid:mom can we have big ben? Mom:we have big ben at home Big ben at home: 1:37

present day big ben is older so it sounds more clean 1890 is younger so it has some voice cracks now thats big brain

The 1890 one just sounds like the batteries are low... Source: I have a clock that plays the Westminster chime (the same piece of music as Big Ben plays) and it sounds similarly warped when the batteries are about to die.

If you turn down the volume of your device and listen to the 1890 one, it sounds less weird and probably more like how it _actually_ sounded back then.

It is fascinating to hear these chimes of two different eras back to back. Both wonderful. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

It's currently 2 am and I don't think I'm going back to sleep for the next month

If the noises and warping audio were removed, the bells would have been very clear to hear, especially Big Ben. The very first decade of the 20th century was when vehicles became to be made across the world, and that means Big Ben truly was heard for many miles as told by the tower’s owners. But now with London being very busy 24/7, the bells can be heard at least across the river in London, but not that much further than that.

Honestly it unsettles me how many times the bell is struck, and how old it is. I’m sitting here thinking that the bell is going to fall off one day

Could you imagine being on the streets or even at home late at night and hearing this clock, it'd be really creepy

This answers a lot of questions I had. Whenever I hear the present day chimes I hear F A G C, F G A F, A F G C, C G A F. I read somewhere that it’s actually supposed to be tuned a half step lower. When I heard the 1890 chimes I heard the notes as E, G#, F#, B, and so on. I guess after 160 years of the bells being struck in the exact same spots the tuning has gone out of wack. The bells may be tuned in E but today it sounds like they’re chiming in F.

1890 Recording Reminds me of Salad Fingers I don't know why

They've managed to clear up a lot of the static and background noise since the 1890s. Sometimes progress is a good thing

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The 1890 chime sounded creepy because of the recording device they used the tech then isn't that advance so if ur in 1890 you'll hwar the same as present.

The 1890 reminded me just spamming the keys on the piano

17,666 views Creepy sounding bell I'm sure people slept well at night

From what I can hear the 1890 sound was in a lower tonality. I guess the rest is just the distortion because of old recordings and all that. I kinda prefer the actual one, sounds better to me.

It will be good to hear what it sounds like when it is refirbished

The 1890 one makes it sound like the Palace of Westminster is burning down, yet Big Ben still triumphantly chimes.

In 1976 the Chiming train suffered a catastrophic failure which broke the drum that rings out the Westminster chimes. As a result, they had to have that particular part remade which slowed down the chimes by a fraction. If u listen to any recording of the chimes before 1976 you will hear that they are a tiny bit faster then the present day chimes.

1890 Chimes is like Big Ben but *CURSED.*

1890 sounds like fire and a crooked bell

1890 sounds like an Earl Sweatshirt sample

Present- Beautifully Chimes 1890's- OMG EAR RAPES

I'm the only one that 1890 big Ben isn't scary

Big Ben haunted in the 1890s :D

1890 is creepy because the sound quality edit: XD IT SOUNDED FRYING EGGS

“This is London....”

Los dos suena hermoso pero el que más el de 1890

0:38 The present day Big Ben sound reminds me of our old vintage wall watch that you can operate it with a key

1890 Chime is the one i hear in anime all the time

The 1890 Ones are freaking scary

Tip: Listen with headphones. It makes a big difference.

1890: hotdogs cooking in the background

big ben in 1890: *voice crack ding* its not really creepy

1890: What it feels like when cooking eggs in an old haunted house.

1 year left till Big Ben chimes again!!

Yo Big Ben is almost like 200 years old wow 177 year old grandpa beautiful Big Ben clock

The 1890s one isn't spokky because if you could time travel to 1890it would have sounded the same

It warps hard in 1890

1890 is warped itself

If u want to skip the present day 1:37

1890 1890 1 8 9 0 Me: EGGS AND POSSESSED BELLS!!!!!!!

1890 sounds like asgore's theme but scarier

99% of comments: 1890 is so scary 1% actual comments

I'm curious to know where the 1890 recording was. I'm thinking either at the foot of the tower, on Westminster Bridge, on the court between the palace and Westminster Abbey, or right up on the belfry.

The 1890 Version Is A Very Creepy Lost Recording

at the old one the bell is still new so it sounded like that

Not sure if the restoration of the bells will affect their sound but maybe they will sound more in tune like they formerly did

The 1890s is specifically a bit creepy because the people and the recorders are all dead

12:00 AM playing this.

The 1890 one is quite scary

1890: *E G G S*

Everyone who was alive back in 1890 are now all deceased

Happy new year 2022 (1981) Rest în peace Queen Elizabeth || her soul is in heaven now where we all go

I have to add the wax recording was slowed down on the transmission end. Please speed it up slightly and use a pitch attenuators to use the present bell chime as a reference to match the actual sound pitches up.

I’m listening to this at 1am and waking up my neighbours

Is it just me or does the present day chimes remind me of the victory theme from fnaf

The 1980 recordings had more tone to them (ignoring the warped and static noises).

1890s bigben sounds scary af

0:16 Oh boy! That means I win! I get to live another day!

| 0:15 |Present time| 1:46 |1890 recording|

1890 is creepy

He was built in 1859

I'm just here for all the Londoners simping for Big Ben

From what I heard it's under restoration for another year

When you tune the chime with baroque tuning it's raining.

1890's version is disturbing and creepy

Did you copy the modern audio from the BBC?

Are they cooking somethin

He has been shut down for repairs

0:16 PART OF PRESENT 1:45 ITS AN OLD PART OF ENGLAND

Wobbly... Doesn't scare me that much but why is it that wobbly

So the Chimes went from once every 5 Seconds to once every 4 seconds oh, that is unless the tape speed is off.

0:16 21 August 2017

Can modern technology not remove JUST the static etc. noise from the 1890 recording?

Omg that 1890 is so good for halloween

Such an old clock he is

Big Ben in 1890, Chime cracking because the Big Ben hit puberty. Actually, it sounds the same despite the poor quality way back then.

It sounds like that TickTock filter

The present day was big bens final chimes for 4 years lol

Did they have to scramble bacon and eggs during the 1890 version?

Me reading some of the comments about the poor audio quality of the 1890 clip...ya'll, it was freaking 1890, lmao there was no proper technology at all, in fact technology was just developing (can't believe I have to say this knowing that ya'll know technology was still developing at the time🙄) in fact I find it fascinating how good the audio was given the time period, some of ya'll are either weird or straight up dumb, you expected 4k clarity or what💀

Well, for me the De 1890 must sound better, because at the time Big Ben wasn't even 100 years old, so he was younger, it's just because of the recording that is from 100 years ago, the one today is very great, But it must sound worse because it's older, since it's almost 200 years old now, not to mention it wasn't cracked in the past.

1890, sounds like someones fryin eggs there.

0:16 1:46

The present day one sounded like the fnaf 1 6 am clock chime

I remember this video

Shout out the the audio guy who help the camera guy

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