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Baldwin Avenue

Westminster doorbell.

  • E-WO-W
  • West family
  • Guitar signature

Why Baldwin Avenue sounds like this

A doorbell plays the Westminster chime, with a short pause halfway through. Baldwin Avenue is thought to be named for Stanley Baldwin, and it runs off Asquith Avenue, named for another British prime minister. So the station between them rings Big Ben's tune, the chime most doorbells borrow.

Inside the chime

Baldwin Avenue's chime runs about 4 seconds, in two parts. Every station's chime ends on its family's signature, so you can tell roughly where you are by ear.

  1. 1

    Baldwin Avenue's own motif 3.3 s

    Westminster doorbell. No other station plays it.

  2. 2

    The West family's guitar 1.0 s

    Three plucked guitar notes climbing a major chord. It covers the western suburbs.

On the network

KingslandMorningsideBaldwin AvenueYou are hereMt AlbertAvondaleNew LynnGrafton

The West family

13 stations end on the guitar: Kingsland out to Swanson.