"Williams Top C
“I remember a relative of mine—‘Williams Top C’—who has passed into Welsh folklore as the man who used to carry a tuning-fork round the chapels. He used to listen to the old-style preachers at work on the formidable twohour sermons of the old days. There was a method of preaching in Wales which reached its zenith in the late nineteenth century in which the minister went into a sort of chant. It was called the ‘hwyl,’ and came usually at the climax of his sermon. His voice rose higher and higher and higher to a thrilling climax, and a great practitioner could make the ‘hwyl' a tremendous experience. My uncle, in his enthusiasm, would wait for the crest of the emotional wave, then strike his tuning fork and shout from the gallery: Top Ci Well done, William bach :” —Wynford Vaughan Thomas speaking in a 8.8. C. programme about his boyhood in Wales.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29900, 14 August 1962, Page 10
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