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
Rittenhouse “Traditional” Beverly Door Chime Model C8536 circa 1972 This is perhaps the most successful of the Rittenhouse Beverly models. The chime shares a cover… Read More »Rittenhouse Beverly-1972
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
Early Single Note Door Chime One of the earliest door chimes in the Museum, these examples play a single note on a tone bar. The… Read More »Early Single Note Doorbell
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
Air Powered Non Electric Door Bell This is actually a pretty good idea that never caught on. A mechanical doorbell that can be triggered remotely… Read More »Air Powered Doorbell
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
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