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Whereas the church and temple bells called to mass or religious service, bells were used on farms for more secular signalling. The greater farms in Scandinavia usually had a small bell-tower resting on the top of the barn. The bell was used to call the workers from the field at the end of the day's work. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge. Vol.3. Encyclopedia Americana Corporation. 1918. Douglas, Marietta (June 2002). "What is a Carillon?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-04. The Maria Gloriosa in Erfurt Cathedral, Germany was cast by Geert van Wou in 1497, weighs more than 12,500kg (13 tons) and is the world's largest medieval free-swinging bell. [32] [22]

von Falkenhausen, L. (1994). Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91107-9. The ancient Chinese bronze chime bells called bianzhong or zhong / zeng (鐘) were used as polyphonic musical instruments and some have been dated at between 2000 and 3600 years old. Tuned bells have been created and used for musical performance in many cultures but Zhong are unique among all other types of cast bells in several respects and they rank among the highest achievements of Chinese bronze casting technology. However, the remarkable secret of their design and the method of casting—known only to the Chinese in antiquity—was lost in later generations and was not fully rediscovered and understood until the 20th century. Starmer, W. W. (1902). "Bells and Bell Tones". Proceedings of the Musical Association. 28th Session: 25–44. JSTOR 765451. The Bell of King Seongdeok is the largest extant bell in Korea. The full Korean name means "Sacred Bell of King Seongdeok the Great." It was also known as the Bell of Bongdeoksa Temple, where it was first housed. The bell weighs about 25tons and was originally cast in 771 CE. It is now stored in the National Museum of Gyeongju. Associazione Suonatori di Campane a Sistema Veronese (Italy) - https://www.campanesistemaveronese.it/The traditional harmonically tuned bell has a minor third as a main harmonic. On the theory that western music in major keys may sound better on bells with a major third as a harmonic, production of bells with major thirds was attempted in the 1980s. Scientists at the Technical University in Eindhoven, using computer modelling, produced bell profiles which were cast by the Eijsbouts Bellfoundry in the Netherlands. [26] They were described as resembling old Coke bottles [28] in that they had a bulge around the middle; [29] In 1999 a design without the bulge was announced. [30] However, the major bell concept has found little favour, and minor third bells are almost universally cast today. Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Huang, Houming (2002). "Prehistoric Music Culture of China". Cultural Relics of Central China (3): 18–27. ISSN 1003-1731. Handbell Musicians of America (United States) - formerly known as The American Guild of English Handbell Ringers (AGEHR)

Rama (1993). Cloches de France et d'ailleurs (in French). Paris: Le Temps apprivoise. ISBN 2-283-58158-3. OCLC 414929215. In Scotland, up until the nineteenth century, it was the tradition to ring a dead bell, a form of handbell, at the death of an individual and at the funeral. [35] Bell study and ringing organisations [ edit ] Murdoch, James. (1903). A History of Japan. London: Paul, Trech, Trubner. [re-issued by Routledge, London, 1996. ISBN 978-0-415-15416-1

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In folk tradition, it is recorded that each church and possibly several farms had their specific rhymes connected to the sound of the specific bells. An example is the Pete Seeger and Idris Davies song " The Bells of Rhymney". Needham, J. (1962). Science and Civilisation in China. Physics and physical technology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-05802-5 . Retrieved 2021-10-20. The Great Mingun Bell is the largest functioning bell. It is located in Mingun, Burma, and weighs 90 tonnes (100 tons). A carillon, which is a musical instrument consisting of at least 23 cast bronze cup-shaped bells, is tuned so that the bells can be played serially to produce a melody, or sounded together to play a chord. A traditional carillon is played by striking a baton keyboard with the fists, and by pressing the keys of a pedal keyboard with the feet. The keys mechanically activate levers and wires that connect to metal clappers that strike the inside of the bells, allowing the performer to vary the intensity of the note according to the force applied to the key.