Elise, the bongs are the bongs themselves, not the preceding melodic stuff. Here’s how it works:

At quarter past the hour, you get the following sequence of notes:

A, F, G, C

At half past the hour, you get:

A, F, G, C, C, G, A, F

At quarter to the hour, you get:

A, F, G, C, C, G, A, F, A, G, F, C

And on the hour, you get:

A, F, G, C, C, G, A, F, A, G, F, C, A, F, G, C, followed by one bong for each number of the hour we’re at.

My relative pitch means that all the notes above are correct in relation to one another, but not necessarily correct. Steve?

So, if you include the preceding ditties, you have an additional 960 bell rings (which I wouldn’t constitute as bongs), taking the total to 1,116 per bell rings day.