The sound of music coming from anywhere can brighten up a sagging spirit. Clocks are ideal time-keepers and also melody makers. From the striking and oscillating pendulums and gentle tick-tocks the clocks have come a long way… drumming in the ears of human civilization.

One of the famous brands Seiko has introduced ‘melodies in motion’ as a design whose price can be told on request. It is a pleasant musical wall clock that has Hi-Fi melodies. Six musical chimes that are featured and have received positive feedback from consumers are: Top of the world, Missing you, La, la, la love song, Bridge over troubled water, my favourite things, Close to you also. There is also option for playing Christmas songs like Have yourself a merry little Christmas, Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, I’ll be home for Christmas, The Little drummer boy and White Christmas. The clock has beautiful sparkling LD lights. The melodies in motion can be controlled by a volume knob. Al encased in a glass crystal it looks fabulous besides the fireplace in the living room. The best part of this design is that the music played is always attached to the time and the actual focus of the time piece is never lost on the owner. Seiko has other melodies in motion also. The music is soothing to the ears and the appearance pleasing to the eyes. Another fantastic design comes in a metallic silver finish with glass crystal. It has another set of hi-fi tunes to entice the consumer. With the help of light sensors features can be activated or deactivated. It has 16 Swarovski crystals elements with a moving pendulum.

Musical clocks were a 16th century invention. Made by Nicholas Vallin, some are installed in the British Museum. It had an entire band which included a spiked cylinder with hammers, combs, bells, organ pipes, bellows or dulcimer strings! Either they were wound every 8 days or every 30 days. Churches featured some of these clocks. The chiming helped people on the streets. The farmers ploughing in the farms also could hear the clock strike in the distance. What an idyllic setting that was! That was the technology then! And now, digital timers rock us with their precession. With six bells chiming different tunes it is a perfect way to indicate time. Carillons were quite popular till the tweety cuckoos winged their way in our hearts.