Rittenhouse PO-2 Long-Bell Door Chime
RIttenhouse PO-2 Long-Bell Door Chime Circa 1936 This PO-2 chime is believed to be the among the first long-bell door chimes from the A.E. Rittenhouse… Read More »Rittenhouse PO-2 Long-Bell Door Chime
RIttenhouse PO-2 Long-Bell Door Chime Circa 1936 This PO-2 chime is believed to be the among the first long-bell door chimes from the A.E. Rittenhouse… Read More »Rittenhouse PO-2 Long-Bell Door Chime
Australian Radio Commercial for Friedland Door Chimes 1964 (Chime sound) “Ding-Dong” (Woman singing) Welcome. That’s the cheerful way, the friendly way, to welcome your guests every… Read More »Friedland Door Chime Radio Commercial
General Kontrolar Telechime Announcer This handsome doorbell from TeleChime is among the earliest long bell door chimes in the Museum. This was serviced for the… Read More »Telechime Announcer
A Wind-up Westminster Door Chime This is a wind-up door chime that plays a Westminster Melody on a music box mechanism when the doorbell button… Read More »Music Box Westminster Chime
How Dry I Am Musical Chime How Dry I Am was a portion of the lyrics of a tune written by Irving Berlin in 1919.… Read More »Clothes Dryer Door Chime
Chimes vs Doorbells The premise that a doorbell made noise and a door chime was pleasant to the ears was quite the hot topic in… Read More »Doorbells vs Chimes
Early Door Chimes at Sears the 1930s The depression era market for doorbells fell precipitously along with the steep drop in construction. U.S. housing starts… Read More »Sears First Door Chimes
Rittenhouse Sentinel Model 365 The Sentinel leveraged the design work of Norman Bel Geddes for the 2nd Generation Beverly Musical Chime. Described in a 1950s Rittenhouse… Read More »Rittenhouse Sentinel
Sanyo Fan 8 Transitor Chime The Sanyo Fan 8 door chime from Japan is a unique musical door chime that employs a combination of mechanical… Read More »Sanyo Fan 8
Rittenhouse Beverly Here is the original Rittenhouse Beverly musical door chime. This chime employs an electrical timing mechanism invented by Lloyd Rittenhouse in 1940. The… Read More »Rittenhouse Beverly