Dictionary definition: change ringing

Article: WHERE THE BELL TOLLS ; Small group gathers at tower each week to ...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  November 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... world's oldest musical traditions - change ringing. A popular practice in the church ... England dating to the 17th century, change ringing is the tolling of a set of tuned bells ... workings of the bells. Members of the change ringing group who were present asked Ryan to ...

Article: Change ringing has a peal for all
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 29, 1996 ;     369 words ...In change ringing, the aim is to play a church's set of bells in a different order ... In 1668, Fabian Stedman published the first comprehensive book on change ringing, setting out methods for exhausting all the possible ringing orders ...

Article: Melodic sounds carry across city; Trinity Church in Manhattan ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... mathematical formula dating to the Middle Ages. The so-called change-ringing bells - the only 12-bell set in the United States - were ... and Peter Townsend pull down a rope to ring the 12th of 12 change- ringing bells during an inaugural run of the new set at Trinity ...

Dictionary definition: change-ringing
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;      260 words ...change-ringing. Practice, virtually confined to Britain, of ringing church bells by teams, each member pulling the rope controlling one bell. See bell .

Dictionary definition: round(1)
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      700+ words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 round(1) (round) adj. 1. shaped like ... sequence of a set of bells from the smallest to the largest, in change ringing--vt. 1. to make round: often with off 2. Phonet. to ...

Article: Bell ringing history could be silenced as church seeks repairs
The Beacon Hill Times;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... has more then 5,000 towers where change ringing occurs, there are only 50 such towers ... America. Boston is at the center of change ringing's North American history, with the ... central to Boston and North America's change ringing history. "It would be a loss to the ...

Dictionary definition: pedophile
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      128 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 pe|do|phile (pe'do fil, -d-) n. a person having pedophilia Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.