Article: Million-dollar bells peal in N.Y.

Article: Melodic sounds carry across city; Trinity Church in Manhattan ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the Middle Ages. The so-called "change-ringing" bells - the only 12-bell set in the United States - were installed about five years after ... down a rope to ring the 12th of 12 "change- ringing" bells during an inaugural run of ...

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: change ringing
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      261 words ...change ringing see bell .

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 .

Article: Bell ringers see in the new world's new year
Yorkshire Post;  December 24, 2005 ;     531 words ... ... Methodist Church. While change ringing in Britain dates back to ... long time, as this is where change ringing began in the United States when the bells were installed ... Doreen Sanderson, started change ringing in the 1940s. His wife ...

Article: About the Hingham Memorial Bell Tower:
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  November 22, 2007 ;     364 words ...It holds one of only eight sets of 10 change-ringing bells (most towers have eight) in North America. It is one of only 31 towers with change-ringing bells in the United States. The bells, cast at the White Chapel Bell ...