Campanology
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Campanology is the scientific and musical study of bells. It encompasses the technology of bells—how they are founded, tuned and rung—as well as the history, methods, and traditions of bellringing as
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Change ringing in a church in Devon, England
The bells of St Bees Priory, England shown in the "up" position. When being rung they swing through a full circle from mouth upwards round to mouth upwards, and then back again.
Peal board at St Peter and St Paul Church, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, commemorating the ringing of a peal in 1910; 5,040 changes were rung in two hours and forty-nine minutes.
The Nine Tailors
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The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. The story is set in the Lincolnshire Fens, and revolves around a group of bell-
Campanology
…ringing remains most popular in England but is practiced worldwide; over four thousand peals are rung each year. Dorothy L. Sayers's mystery novel The Nine Tailors (1934) centres around change ringing of bells in a Fenland church; her father was a clergyman. The bells in Russian tradition are sounded by their…
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