Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mechanism of a bell hung for English full-circle ringing. The bell can swing through a full circle in alternate directions. The bells of St Bees Priory shown in the "down" position, in which they are normally left between ringing sessions. The bells of St Bees Priory shown in the "up" position.
Grandsire is usually an odd-bell method and the following suffixes are used to describe it when the changes are rung on different numbers of bells. There is a normally a cover bell ringing in last place at each row, to add musicality and rhythm, but Grandsire may be rung without a cover.
Change ringing originated following the invention of English full-circle tower bell ringing in the early 17th century, when bell ringers found that swinging a bell through a much larger arc than that required for swing-chiming gave control over the time between successive strikes of the clapper. Ordinarily a bell will swing through a small arc ...
Static bells struck by solenoid-operated hammers in a bell-gable Mechanism of a bell hung for English full-circle ringing. The bell can swing through a full circle in alternate directions. English full-circle bells shown in the "down" position, in which they are normally left between ringing sessions English full-circle bells shown in the "up ...
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.
Each hammer is connected by a rope to a fixed frame in the bell-ringing room. When in use the ropes are taut, and pulling one of the ropes towards the player will strike the hammer against the bell. To enable normal full circle ringing on the same bells, the ropes are slackened to allow the hammers to drop away from the moving bells.
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 .
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 ...