Go to Milford, and every hour, you'll hear the ringing of a bell that was cast by Paul Revere in 1802.

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Flick to the dark, church bell-filled Summer Son and you hear the Pet Shop Boys and Abba, or if you prefer a bit of 90s Motown, check out When We Are Together and Day After Day.

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If you hear things getting violent next door, you can ring the bell or call the doorman or the cops.

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Yet surely there had been something else, another music inside the public proclamations, and there must have been those who could hear more than the facts, gifted listeners who could pick out the subtleties in the way one bell worked against the others, say, or in the pauses when one ringer stopped, weary or undecided, or touched with the knowledge of imminent mortality.

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The bell would hang at one end of the stadium, and Boyle said he wanted people to hear it "for hundreds of years".

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