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The Dorothy Shaw Bell Choir is the internationally acclaimed community handbell choir from Fort Worth, TX. [1] Founded in 1964 to be a part of the annual Christmas play-pageant The Littlest Wiseman, the choir has evolved into a musical organization.
The Raleigh Ringers is a concert handbell choir based in Raleigh, North Carolina. [1] The Raleigh Ringers perform interpretations of sacred, secular and popular music, including rock 'n' roll tunes, arranged for handbells. The Raleigh Ringers has performed in 39 states and the District of Columbia, in several cities in France and England, and ...
The Pikes Peak Ringers is a community handbell choir based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The group was established in 1991 (33 years ago) ( 1991 ) by its director, Kevin McChesney. The group has performed a variety of styles of music , including classical, traditional, pop, jazz, new age, contemporary and original.
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The group is a double handbell choir, performing with 27 to 35 ringers on two sets of Malmark handbells (one seven-octave set and one 6½ octave set) and two sets of Malmark handchimes (six octaves each). The octave two bells are Malmark aluminums. Each part is usually doubled (played by two ringers on separate sets), except octave two.
Method ringing (also known as scientific ringing) is a form of change ringing in which the ringers commit to memory the rules for generating each change of sequence, and pairs of bells are affected. This creates a form of bell music which is continually changing, but which cannot be discerned as a conventional melody .
For bell ringer Donald Breckner, volunteering as a bell ringer is one way to give back after the Salvation Army helped him after he lost his New Orleans home in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina.
There are several major publishers providing printed handbell music such as the Hope Publishing Company, The Lorenz Corporation and Alfred Music as well as free sites from individual composers and arrangers. Costs associated with handbell music typically result from shipping (many scores are only published in hard-copy) and dissemination; as ...