Forget the image of a hand-bell choir as middle-aged church ladies donning white linen gloves, stiffly ringing a few small silver bells on Sunday morning. The Raleigh Ringers take bell ringing to a ...
Handbells have been around for centuries. Originally invented for church bell tower players to practice their songs, they took on a life of their own in handbell ensembles, where groups of musicians ...
Listener and musician Randy Granger of Las Cruces, N.M., plays the Hang, an odd-shaped instrument created in Switzerland in the late 1990s. It looks and sounds alien. Today's sound clip introduces us ...
UNIDENTIFIED CHORUS: (Singing) J-I-N-G-L-E bells. SIMON: Ah, jingle bells. Don't worry. Not going to sing along, but I would like to pose a question. How did those bells become a symbol of this season ...
In 1953, a colossal musical instrument called a carillon — made up of 47 bells and collectively weighing 12 tons — made a journey via ship from Holland, through the Panama Canal to Seattle and ...
There are drums on the beach and guitars in the streets. But there’s another sound of summer with a unique ring to it: the bells of Behrend. And crowds can listen for free during this summer's Smith ...
In the late Bronze Age, ca. 500-450 BCE, bells were made in sets that rang different notes according to size. Freer|Sackler In the year 433 BCE, Marquis Yi of the state of Zeng was laid to rest in his ...
Every year Handwerkplatz becomes an outdoor concert hall for a musician in a black costume and a golden phoenix mask. Sitting in a cabin, he presses baton-like keys with fists and feet, creating ...
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