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    tune chime bells to the same precision as carillon bells. Chimes are defined as specifically having fewer than 23 bells to distinguish them from the carillon...
    14 KB (1,198 words) - 23:56, 2 December 2023
  • Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillons, or a bell tower;...
    8 KB (821 words) - 20:11, 12 May 2024
  • congenital birth defects Chime (bell instrument), an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard Chimes, the sounds produced by...
    3 KB (381 words) - 23:48, 12 March 2024
  • the chime is also played by the bells of the so-called Red Tower in Halle, the native town of Handel. In 1851, the chime was adopted by Edmund Beckett...
    20 KB (2,002 words) - 12:45, 4 April 2024
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    "Bronze phallic wind chime (tintinabulum)". British Museum. Westcott, Wendell (1970). "Chapter 1: Bells of the Orient". Bells and Their Music. G.P. Putnam...
    15 KB (1,838 words) - 00:53, 4 May 2024
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    four quarter bells, which chime on the quarter hours. Big Ben is a British cultural icon. It is one of the most prominent symbols of the United Kingdom...
    61 KB (6,924 words) - 01:06, 2 May 2024
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    Campanology (redirect from Bell ringing)
    tune chime bells to the same precision as carillon bells. Chimes are defined as specifically having fewer than 23 bells to distinguish them from the carillon...
    21 KB (3,974 words) - 16:08, 19 April 2024
  • A clock chime is a melody or a set of melodies played at intervals upon a set of bells to mark the passage of time. It is also the name of the installed...
    4 KB (482 words) - 11:10, 9 November 2023
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    Bianzhong (redirect from Chime bells)
    bells, played melodically. China is the earliest country to manufacture and use musical chimes. They are also called chime bells. These sets of chime...
    14 KB (1,600 words) - 11:01, 24 April 2024
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    Mark tree (redirect from Chime tree)
    stick through the length of the hanging chimes. They are mounted in pitch order to produce rising or falling glissandos. Unlike tubular bells, another form...
    2 KB (282 words) - 05:57, 15 February 2024
  • six-bell version, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford composed a new melody (still called Whittington chimes) that uses 11 out of the 12 bells in the tower...
    6 KB (666 words) - 19:51, 3 March 2023
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    The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, commonly referred to as The Chimes, is a novella by Charles Dickens...
    16 KB (2,016 words) - 01:13, 23 March 2024
  • Chime Communications Limited is a marketing services company headquartered in Westminster, London, England. Chime is the holding company for companies...
    9 KB (736 words) - 12:00, 29 March 2024
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    music, such as in AC/DC's "Hells Bells" and Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls". The ancient Chinese bronze chime bells called bianzhong or zhong / zeng...
    48 KB (5,908 words) - 21:29, 6 May 2024
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    take the form of a physical bell, usually electrically operated. In other schools it may be a tone, siren, electronic bell sound, a series of chimes, or...
    4 KB (353 words) - 21:06, 15 April 2024
  • Bellfounding (redirect from Bell founding)
    signify the time or an event, or as a musical carillon or chime. Large bells are made by casting bell metal in moulds designed for their intended musical pitches...
    27 KB (3,452 words) - 10:00, 30 November 2023
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    The Cornell Chimes is a 21-bell chime in McGraw Tower on the central campus of Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, United States. The chime originally...
    6 KB (687 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2024
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    or limited motion bells, which chime. Within the bell the clapper is constrained to swing in the direction that the bell swings. The clapper is a rigid...
    52 KB (7,073 words) - 03:29, 1 April 2024
  • Bells Corners, Ontario Bells, directly struck percussion instruments Glockenspiel, also known as bells Tubular bells, also known as chimes The Bells (band)...
    2 KB (332 words) - 14:55, 26 February 2024
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    Doorbell (redirect from Door chime)
    the outside next to the door, located around the height of the doorknob, activates a signaling device (usually a chime, bell, or buzzer) inside the building...
    12 KB (1,443 words) - 19:31, 3 April 2024
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