Chimes, Gongs, All Kinds of Musical Devices

Nbc created a seven note sequence in the idea was that at the end of each programme, the announcer would strike a seven note chime sequence on aa set of hand chimes. As you can imagine, since this was being played alive by the announcer, it was really hard to keep consistent, so they shortened it to three notes. Originally the three notes were c, a, f, which had the same sound that we know, to day chest in a different key. Eventually they used the notes g e c, which some people think stood for the general electric company. That would have been the coolest branding story ever, having the g e c chimes stand for the general ele