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  2. School bell - Wikipedia

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    School bell visible in St Johns School, Sydney, Australia (1872) Typical School bell in Austria (1978-2021) Sound of a School bell in Austria. The ringing of a school bell (In foreign) announces important times to a school's students and staff, such as marking the beginnings and ends of the school day, class periods, and breaks. In some schools ...

  3. Electric bell - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used form is the interrupter bell, which is a mechanical bell that produces a continuous sound when current is applied. See animation, above. The bell or gong (B), which is often in the shape of a cup or half-sphere, is struck by a spring-loaded arm (A) with a metal ball on the end called a clapper, actuated by an electromagnet ...

  4. School's Out (song) - Wikipedia

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    The single version of the song is a slightly sped-up narrow stereo remix of the album version with one major difference—the "turn-off" effect used upon the school bell and sound effects at the end of the album version is not used on the single version, allowing the school bell and effects to simply fade out.

  5. Bell-ringer - Wikipedia

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    A bell-ringer at work in Palekh, Russia. A bell-ringer is a person who rings a bell, usually a church bell, by means of a rope or other mechanism.. Despite some automation of bells for random swinging, there are still many active bell-ringers in the world, particularly those with an advanced ringing tradition such as full-circle or Russian ringing, which are artistic and skilled performances ...

  6. Handbell - Wikipedia

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    The Singing Bell technique is adapted from the "Singing Bowl" tradition of Tibet. [12] A tower swing is when the bell is rung and then swung down and a bit behind the ringer and back up to the normal position. This creates an "echo" effect. The mouth of the bell must rotate around to create the sound change that resembles a tower bell.

  7. Change ringing - Wikipedia

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    A bell that is up is dangerous to be near, and only expert ringers should ever contemplate entering a bell chamber or touching a rope when the bells are up. To raise a bell, the ringer pulls on the rope and starts the bell swinging. Each time the bell swings the ringer adds a little more energy to the system, similar to pushing a child's swing.

  8. Ring of bells - Wikipedia

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    Bell ringing at St Botolph's Aldgate in the City of London. 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.

  9. Strike tone - Wikipedia

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    Finally, as the sound of the bell ebbs, the slowly decaying hum tone (an octave below the prime, see subharmonic) lingers on." [ 3 ] "When a bell is properly struck, the first note that prominently attracts the attention of the ear is what is known as the strike note, tap note, or fundamental, this is what we call the note of the bell.