Astro-skeleton, Strike demo after finishing work

This video shows the demonstration of the quarter and hour strike trains after final finishing work. Note that the bells are not connected. The gathering pallets have been taken to an extreme here; instead of a single or double toothed pinion we employ two pair of bird analogs alternately pecking at the quarter and hour racks to count out the strike sequence and raise the racks back to their starting positions. Toward the end of the video one can see a pair of bird feathers alternatively moving on the right of the frame, these are the hammer actuators. The idea for having a pair of pawls to serve as a gathering for a toothed rack was inspired by the date rack in the Easter Calculator located in the astronomical clock of the Strasbourg Cathedral completed by Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué in 1843.