Church bells?

Question

are church bells playing any type of musical note/tune
specially written for camponologists or is it just a case of pull the rope and hope ....for the best?

Answer 1

Most church bells in the UK do not play "tunes" as you might normally understand it. The only ones that do are ones with Carillons - these are set of bells played with mechaniccal actuated hammers played from a keyboard or by an automated player.

The sort played by campanologists are usually sets of 6,7 or 8 bells. These are played by starting will the bell balanced mouth up. Pulling the rope causes the bell to tip and fall through a complete circle (with just the right amount of tug) and come to rest mouth up again .. The hammer falls from one side to the other striking a single note. This takes too long for the bell to be able to play sequences of notes quickly. So the tunes for bell-ringers are arranged as what is called "changes".

Each change involves each bell in a set ringing once and once only. However, each change involves the bells ringing in a different order. With seven bells there are 5040 possible "changes". The changes are arranged so that there is a reasonable gap between each ringing of an individual bell - usually the bell changes its position in the sequence by + or -- 1.

Answer 2

My church has a large box with a timer, and it gets loaded with what looks like player piano sheets. At particular times of the day it plays tunes. I always thought the church had a bunch of different bells, actually it plays them over some powerful speakers that were donated to the church by a local amusement park.
They have about 30 different tunes that can be loaded into the player piano like mechenism to be played on the bells.

Answer 3

LOL! They are actually playing a tune. Getting the timing right with those long ropes is not easy, though. When I was going to school in New Haven CT there was this one church bell that would play and I swear it sounded like the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up". I kinda doubt that was it, though :)

Answer 4

There are specific ropes for specific bells. Pull those ropes in a particular order, at particular intervals and the resulting sound resembles a song.

Answer 5

Yes they are playing a tune because you have to time when to pull the ropes cos if you diddnt then it would just be bells ringing.
Hope this helps!:)

Answer 6

yeah they are playing a tune. At my school it play's something called The Bells of St. Matthews. Afterwards it rings the hour with bell chimes, which gets kind of annoying especially at noon.

Answer 7

yes they do play a tune that is especially written for the bells open you ears and listen really listen the bells are a celebration of life,birth and death,marriage and a union with ourselves and the great man himself

Answer 8

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Answer 9

sets of bells can be connected to a 'keyboard', which looks more like a set of 10 - 20 large wooden levers... but with the ll lll ll lll pattern of a keyboard... this makes the music more predictable.

Answer 10

yes they play different tunes one for weddings one to announce the start of a service etc