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06 Nov 00 - 02:21 PM (#335387) Subject: Campanology From: Ringer In the abortion thread (all of which I've just ploughed through after a couple of days away!), MouseThief asked what campanology is. Here's a link, chosen not because it's the best one (but it has links to more explanatory ones) but because it has a picture of my son (he's the one on the extreme right - just like his Dad **BG** - who looks like a convict). This is the first link I've ever tried. Click here. |
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06 Nov 00 - 02:22 PM (#335388) Subject: RE: BS: Campanology From: Ringer Hey: 10 out of 10 for links, I think. |
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06 Nov 00 - 02:29 PM (#335393) Subject: RE: BS: Campanology From: mousethief Actually, 1 out of 1, if this is your first. Finally I looked it up in the dictionary. It's campanOlogy, not campanAlogy. And it is indeed bellringing, although the word "campanology" doesn't appear on the page you link to. That makes me a campanologist. I got to ring "blagovest" and "trezvon" (Russian bellringing patterns) this Sunday. We have four smallish bells; each is rung with one hand. It's fun; you have to cross your hands over like a piano player. And they're at about face-level, so when you're done your ears ring like crazy.
Alex |
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06 Nov 00 - 02:57 PM (#335407) Subject: RE: BS: Campanology From: AllisonA(Animaterra) I tried a stint at change ringing when I was in my teens living near Boston, Mass, USA. Got to ring the bells in Old North Church on the 18th of April in '75 (1975, that is!). I didn't have a head for keeping the changes in my brain, and then we moved to New Hampshire, far from a bell tower. Alas. But it was great fun while it lasted, and hearing the bells on BBC shows on our local PBS station is fun! |
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06 Nov 00 - 03:25 PM (#335417) Subject: RE: BS: Campanology From: mousethief I heard a wonderful show on change ringing on Karl Haas's "Inside Music" (christmas eve, 1985, if I recall). It used to sound like noise to me; now that I know what's going on, it sounds wonderful.
Alex |
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06 Nov 00 - 04:21 PM (#335456) Subject: RE: BS: Campanology From: Bill D I went to the Univ.of Kansas for 2 years...they had a Carillon tower, and I often heard practice...and a couple of times a year they had a BIG ringing production...I miss it |
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07 Nov 00 - 04:19 AM (#335818) Subject: RE: BS: Campanology From: Wolfgang mousethief, the only person to spell 'campanalogy' this way was you in that thread. Wolfgang |
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07 Nov 00 - 04:21 PM (#336174) Subject: RE: BS: Campanology From: mousethief Did I say I was correcting anybody else?
Alex |
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07 Nov 00 - 06:35 PM (#336254) Subject: RE: BS: Campanology From: Liz the Squeak I used to do that..... great fun, we would go to the pub a lot afterwards, and I could ring a 23cwt bell - that's 23 X 100lbs..... 23 hundredweight. My local tower had a ring of 10, although I've rung on a ring of 12 before, as well as an outdoor ring - bells suspended on an outdoor cage, erected in the grounds of Salisbury Cathedral, where real bells are impractical because their weight would topple the 404ft spire. LTS |
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08 Nov 00 - 03:51 AM (#336568) Subject: RE: BS: Campanology From: Wolfgang Mousethief, you didn't say so explicitely, but to me it was the most probable interpretation of your words in both threads. But I see that a to me at the first glance less probable interpretation is possible. Sorry if I was wrong. Wolfgang |