Me ringing a 100 year old churchbell

Me ringing a 100 year old churchbell
May God's Glory Be Known Everytime A Churchbell is Rung and Heard
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

A Great Book I've read about the history of bells

There's an old book at our local library withn the children's section that has a book on the history of bells. It's called Bells and their Music by Wendell Wescott. Mr. Wescott is a professional when it comes to playing bell music, and had traveled the world to find info on the history of this wonderous instrument. It shows photos of Bell Foundries and how the bells are made, as well as breathtaking views of various carillons and churches that have their bells on display. The book even has an old record that contains Mr. Wescott's recordings of the bell's music from his world travels. It's very nostalgic and informative.

the lost carillon had finally been discovered

After many, many long years of searching for an electronic carillon that used to be at the Old Redeemer Lutheran Church In Plainview Ny, I finally got the info I needed. My search had  come to an end as the Parkway Community Church now housed the Schulmerich Carillon Campanile Bell Instrument Model 36-1321-100. This was all thanks to Mr. Pastor Hill, who provided me with this valuable info. This carillon had played such beautiful music at the Old Redeemer, as I first heard it playing back in the late 1990s, when I first moved to the area. It was something about the type of tone of the bell played that made it unique in the way it sounded, but the songs it played were very memorable, but I don't know the name of the songs it played. But one of the songs I remember hearing it play was shown on one of my other blogs as a Windows Live Movie Maker video. It tells the story of the Old Redeemer Lutheran Church and informs about the harmonious bells that used to play, and then got turned off when the  church went through tough financial times and then got changed to Yale Korean. Since then the bells had been silenced, as now I know the last people that worked there took the carillon to the Parkway Community Church. I am soo happy that I may be able to have my memories revived of this harmonic carillon music.