Horological Meandering

Thanks for joining me on this 8th episode of our tour up the Rhine, seeking clockwork adventures. In this post I encourage you to look up, things aren't as bad as they seem in the world around us. And the heavens are beautiful. There is hope. The folks in...  

....Best, John.

Mike, I was stuck on this paragraph: " The word "carillon" is from the French quadrillon, meaning four bells. In German, a carillon is also called a Glockenspiel. The percussion instrument called a "glockenspiel" by English speakers is often called a cari... 

I scratched my head too, but let it stand because I couldn’t follow the circular reasoning either. Knowing a clever Purist would sort it out for us. Shrug. Does this help? A Glockenspiel: [Glocken: bells + Spiel: set] is a percussion instrument composed o...  

It follows the same principle as my "Monozeiger" watch made by AHCI member Rainer Nienaber: Only Rainer combined it into a single dial. In earlier times, clocks normally only had a single hand, indicating the hours. This was considered accurate enough. A ...  

When we were there in Speyer, I saw the hand indicating when the clock struck the quarter hours, so I assumed minutes. But later looking at the photos I wasn’t sure. Mike