Posted on 06/05/2025 6:31:07 PM PDT by Ezekiel
[Recordings at link. The 1 min D-Day audio includes the words of the announcer.]
The Sound of the Liberty Bell
The Bell as Ben Heard It
Thanks to modern computer modeling, we may have a closer idea of exactly how the Bell sounded when Benjamin Franklin heard it. In 1999, graduate students from Pennsylvania State University were able to digitally create a structural model of the Liberty Bell. From this computer model, they were able to mathematically equate the vibration of the Bell and add sound.
Knowing that the tone of the Bell was E-flat, they were able to come up with a fairly close approximation of the original sound of the Liberty Bell.
The Sound of the Liberty Bell Before it Cracked[This is a computer generated sound of how the Liberty Bell probably sounded before it cracked.]
The Sound of L-I-B-E-R-T-Y on D-Day
There have been several occasions in which the Liberty Bell was struck and the sound was recorded. One very special occasion was on D-Day, June 6, 1944, when the Liberty Bell was struck by Philadelphia Mayor Bernard Samuel seven times, one time for each of the letters in the word "Liberty" in a nationwide broadcast to announce the allied invasion of Europe on the beaches of Normandy, France. (Broadcast courtesy WIP CBS Radio)
Liberty Bell Tapping on D-Day, June 6 1944[This is a recording to the tapping of the Liberty Bell on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.]
Liberals are the crack.
The sound of liberty is the thunder of a stampede, or even a single bull in a China shop.
Basically, it's the sound of a quintessential American coming through.
No wonder the Liberty Bell cracked.
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.>>>Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
The reason for the difficulties with the bell is not certain. The Whitechapel Foundry took the position that the bell was either damaged in transit or was broken by an inexperienced bell ringer, who incautiously sent the clapper flying against the rim, rather than the body of the bell.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell#History
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I believe the last time the Liberty Bell was rang was in the early 1960s when it was struck with a rubber mallet in memory of those people under the CASTRO dictatorship in Cuba.
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