Do you guys have a lot of experience with grandfather clocks. Just wondering. I like the look.
As a matter of fact, I DO!
My grandfather was a jeweler and a horologist. Even after retirement he worked on clocks to keep his mind sharp until he lost his vision. Needless to say I had a lot of clocks in my house growing up. We had a grandfather clock, much like yours, that chimed on the quarter, with a full chime at the top of the hour. We had a kitchen clock that also chimed on the quarters, and a hallway clock. It never bothered me growing up, because that's all I knew. When I had friends over, they thought the doorbell was ringing when the grandfather chimed.
When I would stay with my grandparents there was a clock in almost every room. It did keep me up sometimes, because it was just a little more than I was used to, but overall it was comforting. On most of the spring wound clocks he kept in the house there would be one spring that was dedicated to operating the striker. He wouldn't wind that one on all of them so they wouldn't all chime. The grandfather clock we had used one of the weights for chiming, so if you didn't want it to chime, you wouldn't pull the weight up.
I don't have a grandfather clock in my house, but I do have a kitchen clock that my grandfather restored for me. I honestly forget to keep it wound sometimes, but when I do wind it, it is very relaxing.