A doorbell that has gone to extreme

I love the sound of doorbells, with it's soothing ding dong sound. But as for the fancy ones, you get rod chimes ringing the Westminster chimes, or at least pat of the song. But I came across a video on youtube,where someone had built a doorbell that had gone to extremes. They had purchased a 1940's Cathedrial  chime unit and incorporated computer technology to play the chimes automatically, and bingo, you get a Cathedrial chime doorbell. Image  that when someone comes to your home, and rings your doorbell, your will hear the Cathedrial Chimes play it's programmed full song, to let you know that someone is at your door. It's a beautiful thing, and wonderous things that had been made. I love it.

Dirty Jobs- churchbell maintenance and repair

I remember one episode of this show, which was about churchbells, and how they are taken care of. Indeed it's a dirty job. They've shown the tour of the local foundry, where they make the bells, and clean and repair them. Believe it or not, the start of making ga huge church bell starts off with horse poop. The poop you can say is used to create the mold and is used when pouring the hot melted metals into the mold. It hold the shape of the bell together, as it goes through a cooling process and sets to harden. Amazingly when they show the process to repair and restore old churchbells going over 100 years, you take on a strong appreciation of such a musical device. But that's not all, the guy had joined the team in a job of going into a church, and climbing up to the belfry to do some maintence work on their bells. They had to scrunch down really low and crawl under the bell to clean and lubracate the genetator and parts, which automatically ring the bells. At times the poor guy had accidentally hit the bell as he took out the clapper and he had almost gone deaf. Not to mention whem the bells had begun to play the Angel's praise or something when the church bells ring 13 times. The poor guy was inside the bell as it rung. It was a grand experience as I wondered what the inside of a belfry looked like. But it was no picnic, as the inside was covered in pigeon poop, and dead pigeons as they had somehow flown into the belfry and never got out.  After a long time, the job was done, they went back downstairs,  and the owner had flipped the switch to test out the bells. And they had rang out beautifully. What a job, but it's necessary to have those bells to ring to call everyone to worship

Bells and their Music By Wendell Wescott

I found a cool book in our library within the children's section called "Bells and their Music" By Wendell Wescott. I found the book to be very informative and facinating, as it had photos, illustratoins that explained the history of bells, and how their music had influenced our community.  What I found interesting was a photo of a church that their bells hanging from a rope or something and being exposed under the roof right above the entrance way. They also show the process of  making those chruchbells within a foundry. The book also contains a floppy record containing various bell recordings from 1970. Very nice bell music.  As within somne carillons, there are clock towers that ring  those bells automatically, and it works just like a giant music box. There's a giant wheel with tons holes to place metal  pegs inside. As the whell turns, the peg presses onto a lever, which pulls the cord and rings the bell. And each of the pegs are placed within a certain hole, as each peg will ring a different bell to play it'ssong. Not to mention of some of the  carillons of the world where you see how high up it is and all the bells that are seen. True that the chimer, must climb to the top of the carillon  by stairs to play the bells, but the mechanical version makes it convenient, but occasional matinence is needed for proper function. I never got tired of reading that book, and I think that the book is  available to read online, but alas, they don't have the recording of the bells. But our library in Hicksville Ny has a copy of the book with the record inside.

electronic Churchbell playing devivces

If you've been curious about these electronic churchbell devices, then you can find a ton of them on Youtube. I didn't place the videos up there or make them, but I thought it was a great way to find out info on them and what they sounded like. It sure beats getting yelled at by the minister or anyone else at the  church that I have asked about their bells.

Curiosity on Church Chimes and bells.

I admit that I was curious about those wonderous and harmonious sounding bells often heard during church services.  I look in the steeple and figure that the church must have some type or carillon somewhere? From my experience, turns out that they don't have a carillon, but an electric carillon device that plays recordings of the bells. At the  most within their steeple is the speakers or megaphones that the bell music is piped to. But from other videos I've seen on Youtbe, I've gotten a better idea of what it's like up there, as naturally I would get in big trouble if I went up there myself. I've seen the giant Cathedrial chimes that are usually hung high on the wall just above a special organ that controlls the chimes. I just wanted to find out what those sounds were and how those bells are played and where churches keep them. Mostly I admit of being afraid of getting yelled at by the minister or someone working in the church, just because I wanted to find their churchbells. I had gotten yelled at harshly by a male minister at a Trinity church I had gone to from a bell related incident, so as a result I'm never going back to that church again.