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The Ten Bells is a public house at the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street in Spitalfields in the East End of London. It is sometimes noted for its supposed association with at least two victims of Jack the Ripper : Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly .
While ten-bell salutes have typically been reserved for real-life deaths, it has been used in kayfabe on multiple occasions in WWE history (see worked shoot).The most recent instance was in June 2007 for Mr. McMahon (WWE chairman Vince McMahon's on-screen persona), as part of an angle in which he was inside a limousine that exploded, and was presumed dead.
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin (1844, 1845, 1877. The old Rudhall ring of eight (1738) was retained, with some bells recast, and the ring was augmented to ten bells in B. . The tenor was recast in 1979 by John Taylor & Co and in 1999 the bells were augmented to nineteen, the most change-ringing bells in any tower in the world.) [2] [3
So likewise with caters, usually rung on ten bells, and other higher odd-bell stages. Put together, this system gives method names sound that is evocative, musical, and quaint: Kent Treble Bob Major, Grandsire Caters, Erin Triples, Chartres Delight Royal, Percy's Tea Strainer Treble Place Major, Titanic Cinques and so forth.
A "ring of bells" is the name bell ringers give to a set of bells hung for English full circle ringing. The term " peal of bells " is often used, though peal also refers to a change ringing performance of more than about 5,000 changes .
Thomas North (1830–1884), a bell historian, wrote in The Church Bells of Leicestershire (1876) that nearly 200 bells by Watts remained in the county. There were several complete rings admired for the beauty of their tone. The peal of ten bells for St. Margaret's, Leicester, was said by North to be the finest in England.
Bells have been installed in towers around the world and many rings in the British Isles have been augmented to ten, twelve, fourteen, or even sixteen bells. Today change ringing is, particularly in England, a popular and commonplace sound, often issuing from a church tower before or after a service or wedding.
The bells are usually tuned to a diatonic scale without chromatic notes; they are traditionally numbered from the top downwards so that the highest bell (called the treble) is numbered 1 and the lowest bell (the tenor) has the highest number; it is usually the tonic note of the bells' scale. To swing the heavy bells requires a ringer for each bell.