[Bell Historians] The nine tellers

[Carl S Zimmerman]

I would concur that it is possible to simulate tolling with a bell hung for full-circle ringing, and reasonable to use the word "tolling" in that event.

American bellfounders found a different solution, since they did not hang bells in the same way.  They routinely supplied church bells with a separate tolling hammer, roughly analogous to a clock hammer.  Although the practice of tolling for funerals has largely been abandoned in recent decades, there are still a few churches which use some variation of it.


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John Camp <camp at -shdbCmPdVTuz2ffO1SQn2brugMumhrMa6cnup46EgxJicTi8GOKc5B-zRCvUBWD5y5UxxsadYSFvpIhn74E.yahoo.invalid> wrote: 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.
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