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TECHNIQUES OF BELL-RINGING


There are many sorts of bells around the world of all shapes, sizes, and materials, rung in many different ways. When a set of tuned bells is to be rung, some organizing principle must be used; in Europe two main ways of using a church tower for this sort of bell-ringing developed:

  • ''Peal the bell'': When a large heavy bell is rung by pulling a rope that causes the bell to move back and forth to strike the clapper, you are pealing the bell. At a church with such a bell, it is common to peal the bell for most regular worship services.

  • ''Toll the bell'': When a large heavy bell is rung by pulling a rope that is tied to the clapper, causing the clapper to strike the bell, you are tolling a bell. At a church with such a bell, it is common to toll the bell for funerals.



STYLES OF BELL-RINGING

And there are different types of ringing:
  • In a Carillon (popular on the continent of Europe) a large number of bells can be struck by hammers all tied in to a central framework much like a piano keyboard, so that one "carilloneur" can ring them all according to some tune or melody, and even with rudimentary harmony.

  • Change Ringing (popular in the British Isles ) involves a smaller number of bells, each mounted on a wheel and physically swung by its own bellringer pulling on a rope; they are rung not according to melody but following a changing series of mathematical patterns.

  • Russian Orthodox Bell Ringing is very different from European bell-ringing.



EXTERNAL LINKS

  • [http://mtcn.free.fr/mtcn-traditional-music-midi-chime.php Chimes & knells rung in traditional music from county of Nice, France]

  • [http://www.cccbr.org.uk The Central Council of Church Bell ringers]

  • [http://www.ringingworld.co.uk The Ringing World magazine]

  • A free collection of Russian bell-ringing mp3 recordings

  • [http://www.skegnessvideo.com/Bells_in_the_Belfry.html Video-Bells in the Belfry from a Bat's Eye View]