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    not attempt to tune chime bells to the same precision as carillon bells. Chimes are defined as specifically having fewer than 23 bells to distinguish them...
    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
  • syndrome, also known as CHIME syndrome, a rare combination of congenital birth defects Chime (bell instrument), an array of large bells, typically housed in...
    3 KB (381 words) - 23:48, 12 March 2024
  • Palace of Westminster, is a melody used by a set of four quarter bells to mark each quarter-hour. It is also known as the Westminster Chimes, Cambridge...
    20 KB (2,002 words) - 12:45, 4 April 2024
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    parts of Asia and are used in Feng Shui. Wind chimes started to become modernized around 1100 C.E. after the Chinese began to cast bells. A bell without...
    15 KB (1,838 words) - 00:53, 4 May 2024
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    are 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) - 13:09, 18 May 2024
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    Campanology (redirect from Bell ringing)
    not attempt to tune chime bells to the same precision as carillon bells. Chimes are defined as specifically having fewer than 23 bells to distinguish them...
    21 KB (3,974 words) - 16:08, 19 April 2024
  • installed set of bells, when they are not part of a larger bell instrument such as a carillon. Bells that play clock chimes are commonly placed in bell towers...
    4 KB (482 words) - 11:10, 9 November 2023
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    Bianzhong (redirect from Chime bells)
    also called chime bells. These sets of chime bells were used as polyphonic musical instruments and some of these bells have been dated at between 2,000 to...
    14 KB (1,600 words) - 11:01, 24 April 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 of St Mary-le-Bow;: 5 ...
    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
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    Mark tree (redirect from Chime tree)
    length of the hanging chimes. They are mounted in pitch order to produce rising or falling glissandos. Unlike tubular bells, another form of chime, the...
    2 KB (282 words) - 05:57, 15 February 2024
  • communications. Chime was founded as a private company in 1989 following a management buyout from Lowe Howard Spink and Bell to form Lowe Bell Communications...
    9 KB (736 words) - 12:00, 29 March 2024
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    many kinds of popular 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...
    48 KB (5,908 words) - 21:29, 6 May 2024
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    Doorbell (redirect from Door chime)
    additional features, suiting three doors. Some chimes have tubular bells instead of bars. More elaborate doorbell chimes play a short musical tune, such as Westminster...
    12 KB (1,443 words) - 19:31, 3 April 2024
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    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 music...
    4 KB (353 words) - 21:06, 15 April 2024
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    handbells, where conventionally each ringer holds two bells, and chimed on carillons and chimes of bells, though these are more commonly used to play conventional...
    52 KB (7,073 words) - 03:29, 1 April 2024
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    Korean Wind Chime (Korean: 풍경, romanized: punggyeong, lit. 'wind bell') is a variety of bell traditionally hung from the exterior corners of Korean Buddhist...
    2 KB (193 words) - 11:05, 24 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
  • 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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