Saturday, December 24, 2022

Now Playing: The Steam Whistle Of York, Pennsylvania

"WORLD’S LOUDEST MUSIC WITHOUT AMPLIFICATION FROM A NON-MUSICAL INSTRUMENT"


Every Christmas morning at 12:15 AM since December 25, 1955, the Ryan family has presented a unique heralding of the holiday season. Announcing the arrival of Christmas day, whistle master Donald E. Ryan starts to play carols on a factory whistle. Thousands of people each year make listening to the carols part of their holiday tradition. This tradition has, perhaps, no other counterpart in the world!

Click below for a great little news segment...



And here to see some video of it happening early Christmas morning (from the outside)...

When you watch stuff like this, you realize Tradition is one of the most wonderful and uniquely human things on the face of this earth, and in the Universe most likely (assumption).

Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas Eve!  

3 comments:

Willow Cove said...

That’s Cool! And it’s neat that the whistle is so old.
Merry Christmas!

Rot said...

Merry Christmas!

Revenant Manor said...

Today, I learned! :)

(This was really great)