[Bell Historians] The nine tellers

[john]

> At 21:48 on 21 July 2008, john [Ketteringham] wrote:
>
> > By the way I think when we refer to a bell being 'tolled'   we think of
a
> > large bell and a small bell is 'chimed'.
>
> OK.  But if you ring a bell which is 'up' in a slow and deliberate
> fashion, pausing between strokes, doesn't that count as 'tolling'?  I
> think that the word has more to do with what it sounds like than how it
> is produced.
>
> John Camp
>
John - when you are  chiming or tolling a bell it is 'down' when a bell is
'up' it is being 'rung' full circle! =)