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Article: Bell ringing history could be silenced as church seeks repairs
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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ON SUNDAY MORNINGS, AT LEAST eight parishioners at The Church of the Advent climb a narrow, winding staircase up to the church's bell tower at the foot of Beacon Hill. When the group reaches the tower's bell room, the parishioners form a circle facing one another and go to work - keeping time and counting while pulling long ropes attached to eight bells above them on circular pulley systems. The bells, cast in London in 1900, can weigh more than a ton, but ringing them is a greater technical challenge than a physical one. The ringers' intricate patterns make beautiful sounds, but on paper they look more like complicated math problems.
The "change ringers" at The Church of the Advent ...