In the fifties, door bell companies pivoted to manufacturing military equipment. They realized that you could make reasonably pleasant electric sounds without actually using those long, cumbersome bells. You'll be very familiar with this one. So that is a a long bell, eight note melody westminster peal, played on a vintage long bell door chime. And now we come to the part of object history where we have to mention world war too.

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