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That would be volunteers from the MIT Guild of Bellringers, a dedicated group who practice every weekend to master the complex and historic practice known as change ringing. The bells in the Old ...
When I was a first-year, I used to think that the chiming bells I’d occasionally hear on campus were caused by the wind. It wasn’t until I spotted poster in the campus center inviting people to a ...
Change ringing is the traditional art of ringing a set of tower bells in an intricate series of patterns. "In North America, it's unusual," explained Ed Futcher, a change ringer in Raleigh.
Such bells are meant for English change ringing, where bells mounted on wheels weave a complex pattern of sound, and for the greater part of a year, ever since I moved to Leeds, England ...
Bells reverberated across the Financial District on Saturday afternoon, producing thunderous clangs and glissandos. Bands had traveled as far as hundreds of miles to climb into the landmark ...
Church bells are synonymous with Christmas, but could the sound of them ringing soon be consigned to history? This is the concern outlined in a report by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers ...
For most, church bells ... of bell ringing in a neighborhood or town’s life could help strengthen communities in this dizzying age of technological, economic and political change.
For most, church bells ... of bell ringing in a neighborhood or town’s life could help strengthen communities in this dizzying age of technological, economic and political change.