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Tomorrow at 8 am British ring all the bells

The artist Martin Creed suggested that all-all-all the Brits who have on hand will be a bell or a bell ringing as loudly as possible and usually within three minutes tomorrow from 8:12 am to mark the Olympic Games

Source: bbc.co.uk

Tomorrow at 8:12 am British to ring all the bells as a sign of the Olympic Games. In this way, suggested that such a significant point for the country event of the artist Martin Creed. Instructions for those wishing to participate in an art project called «Work No. 1197 "is very simple: three minutes from 8:12 need to call as loudly as possible, and more.

It does not matter that the instrument will be in the moment at hand - the church bell , door bell, bicycle bell, or bot, borrowed from passing by Cows. The main thing - to call. Turner Prize winner Martin Creed confessed that he had decided to recall childhood: a child he liked to listen to the bells that resounded in his home town of Wakefield every wedding. He thought, why not try to do the same across the country in a strictly appointed hour? Creed hopes that want to ring the bell will be big set.

about their intention to participate have already announced, scientists at Cambridge, the Royal Navy sailors, diplomats, British embassies around the world, all four members of the parliaments of the United Kingdom and cyclists from Coventry. Within three minutes, forty times will have time to break the famous bell Big Ben. Usually, it automatically hits a boundary time intervals, but that the bell was rung continuously, you need to beat it by hand. The last time this was done in 1952 during the funeral of King George VI. Then, Big Ben struck 56 times in a row. The organizers of an art project «Work No. 1197, "hoping that they will be able to beat the Guinness record for the largest number of callers at the same time the bells.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : bbc.co.uk , artinvestment.ru


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