Deagan Cathedral Chime Doorbell

Deagan cathedral chimes converted to work as a doorbell. Controlled by a PC, and plays unlimited number of songs.

[@amspcut]

I love it, as a pipe organ enthusiast!!! However, as a little kid, I always banged the damn 4 chimes together at my next door neighbors and got hell for it!! Later when I got married our first home was a double wide mobile home unit with a mechanical doorbell! I ripped the damn thing out and put in a 4 chime unit as a Valentines present for my other half!! It has traveled to 4 homes we have lived in 2 of which we built. I have always wanted to be able to program or go one better!! This just might just be it!! Congratulations this is wonderful.

[@Sonnywitdamoney]

Even by the time you get to the door the bell is still ringing

[@terjetytland884]

Maby.but you need to put your cognac glass on the table put the cigar on the holder,and get up from the deep chesterfield chair,and walk trough long halls😅

[@patrickd9551]

That is why you have an interrupt switch at the beginning of your hallway, so that when you reach the end the chime echos finally have faded away ;) But that's assuming you have a hallway of any form of significant proportion

[@suvorovoleg9325]

@@terjetytland884 Perfectly said. Allways have record number of visitors when butler enjoys his day off.

[@JonasClark]

A magnificent use of some grand-sounding Deagan chimes. Excellent!

[@wopalongcassidy]

This is an awesome ode to your father. Glad I stumbled upon it.

[@stuartdickinson5282]

Wow Your Dad must have been Amazing!

[@terjetytland884]

Now that is a real mansion doorbell😍

[@angelaburrell4307]

AMEN U SHO KNOW WHAT TO SAY!!!

[@jereyesjr]

Wow!!! I want one!! lol

[@HappyDiscoDeath]

if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing! love it!

[@Zenas521]

Big respect to you and your dad.

[@agarguest]

love this! I have to make one. as soon as the chimes stop running it's time for my mother in law to go!

[@art1muz13]

U R A TRUE HERO TO US; THEE LITTLE ITTY BITTY WEE TINKERERS OF THE EARTH , THANK YOU AND BLESS YOUR POPS!!

[@pierluigiachenza9719]

Artemus Rodricq allora

[@LauraMonteros]

Not over-engineered at all! Perfect!

[@DanOLGB]

Yay! Now I know I'm not the only crazy person that's wanted to do this. I was going to order a set of Peterson's Catherdral Chimes and put a MIDI controller on them, but this looks cool too.

[@SquirrelsForAll]

Absolutely amazing!

[@MydogTobes]

Just wait till halloween......trick or treat.

[@jrzzrj]

lol

[@Tibulace]

I really like the sounds produced by these old bells with sound tubes.These days, they would be prohibitively expensive.But I really don't understand why manufacturers don't release electronic versions of them, sounds recorded on a flash drive, with the same sound quality.

[@patrickd9551]

They always have been prohibitively expensive. They were made for houses with grandeur. In 1950 a fairly basic 4 chime nuTone would set you back 80 dollars if I recall correctly from other videos. Mind you this was for a short tube chime, not the long classic chimes like you see here. Anyway, according the inflation calculator, 80 dollars would be just over 1000 dollars in todays money. And you can definitely buy a real chime doorbell for 1000 dollars, depending on style and brand. Okay to be fair this Deagan doorbell is just insane (and I'm really contemplating building one in a more modern style, but I just want one 😁)

[@foxfuzzbox1541]

I totally love it! I want one just like that.

[@mmcau]

I'm sooooo getting/making one of these babies.

[@TheTimbs_]

That’s a pretty old school thing to see. You walk into an old house and the door bell is chimes.

[@staind288]

Very talented men!

[@kimberlyfranklin836]

Cool! I also have a 4 plate chime. No. 10

[@steve154life]

Preety amazing door chime i hope nothing ever happens to it it iz problie tha last of itz complex kind to still werk .treasure it

[@404HandleNotFound]

Haha, I'd love to annoy the neighbors with this doorbell. :D

[@HappyDiscoDeath]

Tim Taylor would be proud! on a side note, I'd love to hear this doorbell play the Tool Time theme!

[@georgehamilton-roberts7697]

This is wonderful!

[@videogamer24385]

THAT IS JUST TO AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@EvanPalumbo]

@TheSvvagganator That's when you have an air horn hooked to your doorbell and pointed at the little jerks.

[@bubbathecat0504]

Hey RJS, looking to install one of these in my house. Can you give me advice or tips how to get it done? I have a little PLC experience, but need help.

[@ernestmartinelli9604]

Wow, I just got into a new house and want this

[@aaronberns8485]

I Haven’t watched this video in years.

[@anthonybowrah3601]

I bet that must annoy the hell out of the neighbours 😀

[@josephbozik6332]

Awesome accomplishment! A testiment to your Dad for sure. Curious how you set up the PC controls. We have a set of these controlled by the organ, and another larger set in our bell tower that is independently controlled.

[@JamesPollMaine59]

Is this available for sale? I’d love one. 😍😍😍

[@hifijohn]

awesome i always wanted to do this!

[@jonathanbarrott9752]

Great now all I want 4 Xmas is a set that plays this PLUS TUBULAR BELLS by Mike Oldfield, can you help?

[@OohGoshYoureRight]

With a doorbell like that you'd never need again, to go to church.

[@raymondschlegelmilch5461]

Very cool--love it!

[@airbornkid245]

I want one! 🚪 🔔

[@terjetytland884]

So cool!i want it😆😁

[@rvrsgamingvideos1597]

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!

[@tyedyedarainbow]

i am impressed

[@spencoid1]

i have a set of chimes from a Wurlitzer pipe organ which i have been wanting to convert to MIDI control. i have been working with MIDI for 20 plus years and built my own decoder but i can not find a design for a striker/damper that works well and would be easy to build. i have a complete machine shop so i can build anything but do not want to spend many hours figuring out what should have already been figured out. would love some close ups of the striker and damper. it looks like the chimes are struck from the rear and the dampers are on the tops of the chimes?

[@SquirrelsForAll]

Brilliant!

[@garrybrannon5603]

Hi I just purchased a 21 chime cathedral chime like this, the 21 key board says deagan it works well would like to get more info on it, and maybe the year, thanks

[@poppylover2586]

Angels we had heard on high

[@hoangvu7596]

i love it.

[@WatchKek]

Would you do vids with this playing different songs please?

[@smuglife64gaming21]

Cool

[@TheSvvagganator]

I would hate to have this in my house and ding dong ditched. it would just go on and on...

[@Kevinbroekhin]

heel cool!

[@djnunnelly]

This would make Solicitors Visiting really anticlimactic.

[@runescapemichbla]

a ding dong ditcher's dream...

[@Yaledmot]

Now THAT is a door bell. I have two 20 note sets of these things. I would love to know what sort of a program/relay interface you used to get this to function. Nice tribute too.

[@patrickd9551]

Well you start by giving me one and then I'll build you the interface so you can have your doorbell 😉

[@Nico93]

Was this computer an old 486 or a pentium?

[@mcwooley]

Can it play MIDI? With dynamics? *Before anyone attacks this comment please look up MIDI

[@optimistichorizon]

I want it!

[@PezrulezHaakon]

Best way to annoy your neighbours :o)

[@paganini8670]

belle...

[@ghifordmizzard1897]

Peterson Chimes ? Model ? How to Buy ? tk !

[@mattymattel5482]

I’d be lost trying to make one would you know of anyone that could make one for me?

[@random13627]

wow

[@luedriver]

why dont you make it play mozart...??? just a sugestion...

[@miriam724]

Tubular bells

[@darrowby1972]

Fucking hell imagine, that twa* going off every 5 mins on bonfire night! - you`d soon have that torn off the wall!

[@arpiafederation502]

Would you or anyone out there consider making a similar one for me? Seriously! Contact me bia "reply" and let me know. I do have a Deagan Chime like the one shown.

[@DanielTseng100]

I mean, it's "relatively easy" to make the brains of this beauty using an Arduino. Now, for the rest of the stuff, that's going to be a bit harder

[@runescapemichbla]

how the fuck did i end up here anyways -.-

[@Fucknuts4u]

potty mouth

[@michelinman8592]

It is nice, but one wouldn't want one in his house.

[@chaeyoungshi]

deodarant