Photo: Prague City Museum
The Vanished Bells (“Zaniklé Zvony”) project, a collaboration between Czech Radio and Wikimedia Czech Republic, has been launched online to preserve Czech cultural heritage. It focuses on recording and digitizing the sounds of historic bells, many of which are tied to early 20th-century Czech history, including those that were repurposed during the Second World War for the war effort.
The initiative was started by sound engineer Miloslav Turek, who realized that sound recordings of bells from the early 1940s, captured during a time of national turmoil, were invaluable.
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Author: Jakub Ferenčík, Till Janzer