Handbell
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A handbell is a bell designed to be rung by hand. To ring a handbell, a ringer grasps the bell by its slightly flexible handle – traditionally made of leather, but often now made of plastic – and move
Handbell Side and Bottom Views
Two English handbells, manufactured by Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Handbell choir practicing
Hand bells hung chromatically from stand
Bell shrine
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Bell shrines are metal objects built to hold individual early medieval hand-bells, particularly those associated with early Irish saints. Although the enshrinement of bells lasted from the 9th to the
Handbell
…Handbell Tree features a series of interlocking diagonal lines, one for each handbell. The pitch is placed at the lowest point of each diagonal line. Bell shrine Belleplates…
Shrine of St. Patrick's Bell, 11th century, National Museum of Ireland
View of the St. Patrick's bell and shrine on display
Early Irish hand-bells on display in the NMI
Cap and crest of the Shrine of St. Patrick's Bell