In 1876, Eugene Bowen graduated from Tufts College known by peers and faculty as the most prominent bell ringer of his class.
As an organ is to a piano, so is a carillon to an ordinary set of bells. Numbering at least 24 (covering two octaves), the bells of a carillon are tuned with the sharps & flats of the chromatic scale, ...
On Christmas day in the morning, bellringers spit on their hands; they catch hold of the ropes that go up into rimed steeples. “Ding dong,” goes the first faint and shaken bell; swallows leap out of ...
The recent production by Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology of "Bells Are Ringing" harkened back to a lighthearted era of polka dots and party lines, an uplifting show ending a ...