Westminster Quarters
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Recording of Westminster chimes from Big Ben, broadcast on Radio Oranje, at midnight on new year's eve 1945
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The Westminster Quarters, from its use at the Palace of Westminster, is a melody used by a set of four quarter bells to mark each quarter-hour. It is also known as the Westminster Chimes, Cambridge Quarters, or Cambridge Chimes, from its place of origin, the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge.[1]: 7–8