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A cuckoo clock is a clock
Clock

A clock is an instrument used for indicating and maintaining the time and passage thereof. The word clock is derived ultimately from the Celtic languages words clagan and clocca meaning "bell"....
, typically pendulum driven
Pendulum clock

A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the world's most accurate timekeeper, accounting for its widespread use....
, that strikes the hours
Striking clock

File:Big Ben 2007-1.jpgA striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell or gong.The striking feature of clocks was originally more important than their clock faces; the earliest clocks struck the hours, but had no dials to enable the time to be read....
 using small bellows and pipes that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo

The Common Cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the Geococcyxs, the ani , the coucals, and the Hoatzin....
 in addition to striking a wire gong
Gong

A gong is an East Asia and South East Asian musical instrument that takes the form of a flat metal disc which is hit with a mallet.Gongs are broadly of three types....
. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since the middle of the eighteenth century and has remained almost without variation until the present.








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A cuckoo clock is a clock
Clock

A clock is an instrument used for indicating and maintaining the time and passage thereof. The word clock is derived ultimately from the Celtic languages words clagan and clocca meaning "bell"....
, typically pendulum driven
Pendulum clock

A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the world's most accurate timekeeper, accounting for its widespread use....
, that strikes the hours
Striking clock

File:Big Ben 2007-1.jpgA striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell or gong.The striking feature of clocks was originally more important than their clock faces; the earliest clocks struck the hours, but had no dials to enable the time to be read....
 using small bellows and pipes that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo

The Common Cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the Geococcyxs, the ani , the coucals, and the Hoatzin....
 in addition to striking a wire gong
Gong

A gong is an East Asia and South East Asian musical instrument that takes the form of a flat metal disc which is hit with a mallet.Gongs are broadly of three types....
. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since the middle of the eighteenth century and has remained almost without variation until the present.

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