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In English-style ringing the bell is rung up such that the clapper is resting on the lower edge of the bell when the bell is on the stay. During each swing, the clapper travels faster than the bell, eventually striking the soundbow and making the bell sound. The bell speaks roughly when horizontal as it rises, thus projecting the sound outwards ...
Staff call bells Button for electric bell to call the servants, George Stephen House in Montreal, Canada. The service bell of the queen of France, Marie-Antoinette.The bell, in the form of a hand bell, has small dimensions (height circa 12 cm) and adapted for the small hand of a woman.
Doorbell at the entrance of Chetham's Library, Manchester, England Sound of a two-tone mechanical doorbell. A doorbell is a signaling device typically placed near a door to a building's entrance. When a visitor presses a button, the bell rings inside the building, alerting the occupant to the presence of the visitor. Although the first ...
These were single-stroke bells: applying current to an electromagnet pulled the bell's clapper against the bell or gong and gave one chime. The bell did not ring continuously, but only with a single ring, until current was applied again. To sustain the tone, these bells were usually much larger than are used today with interrupter bells.
A mini ring is a portable ring of bells which demonstrates the English full-circle style of ringing. The public can easily see how it works. The full-circle bell is hung from bearings at the headstock and can be swung through an arc of over 360 degrees using a rope wrapping round a circular bell wheel in alternate directions.
In chimes, modes 4, 5, and 6 appear to determine the strike tone and have frequencies in the ratios 9 2:11 2:13 2, or 81:121:169, "which are close enough to the ratios 2:3:4 for the ear to consider them nearly harmonic and to use them as a basis for establishing a virtual pitch." [11] Play chime note on C ⓘ
Handbell techniques have changed very much over the years. Donald Allured, founding director of Westminster Concert Bell Choir, is credited with fully realizing an American off-the-table style of ringing that includes many non-ringing sound effects including stopped techniques such as plucking the clapper with the bell on the table. He is also ...
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