Some flat sounding bells

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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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shota's railfan wrote:Here is some a crossing(s) with a flat safetran bell






Not sure if this is a flat safetran bell.


Flat griswold bell that sounds like a WCH Mechanical Bell
First two bells don't sound flat at all, bell in the third video is dead.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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NathanFromEngland wrote:
ZachL wrote:
freebrickproductions wrote:Here's a pair of very flat Safetran bells:
Wow, wonder how they both sound like that. :Blink:
It's probably the rate of speed of the bell.
The speed of the bell shouldn't really have an impact like that, though.
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VIdeo by user: Chuttely
These are FLAT WCH mechanical bells
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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shota's railfan wrote:

VIdeo by user: Chuttely
These are FLAT WCH mechanical bells
That was posted awhile back.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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A flat Hybrid bell can be seen at 1:59 in this video, and another can be heard at 4:27 (though I don't know if it's the same bell):
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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Not a flat sounding bell, but an unusual Japanese railroad crossing speaker.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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One of the bells at the second crossing in this video sounds pretty rough (you can hear it the best starting at about 5:15 in the video). The first crossing also features an alarm that's having issues.
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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At least one of the bells at 8:22 in this video sounds a bit flat (another view of the crossing can be seen later in the video, starting at about 9:34, along with a good close-up view at 12:55):
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The Safetran(?) mechanical bell heard towards the beginning of this video sounds rather flat:
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Re: Some flat sounding bells

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Speaking of Safetran bells, here's a Safetran Hybrid bell which has quite a bit of trouble ringing:
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