Hi there Scott, I'm a tower captain in the UK and I have a bunch of new folks coming along to try out ringing. I watched your video and think it's a great introduction , so I'm going to show it to my learners too, thank you for putting it up on UA-cam =)
Thanks Richard! I've been slowly making a list of other videos I'd like to make, so if you think of anything, let me know, and I'll add it to my list. We've got a video on the health & safety induction for visitors, and I'm thinking to also do one for visiting film crews and contractors who will go into spaces the public don't go into.
Can any of you camp people (campanologists, I mean) help me out? At 02:02 in the wonderful recording of the "spoof" version of Ave Maria by Vavilov/Caccini, as sung by Sumi Jo, (ua-cam.com/video/fjZ8fBGtMaI/v-deo.html) the orchestration sounds like a glorious peel of bells. And I told an email correspondent so. And I further asserted that they must be English bells, because no other country rings its bells in this way. Only later did I realise that I had no idea what I was talking about. Can anybody rescue my credibility?
Listening to them, it's probably a set of orchestral tubular bells. You see these a lot in performances of Holst and in Christmas concerts. They're not that big (maybe an inch or two across and maybe 6 feet long) and are struck with hammers or mallets, but annoyingly sound more like tower bells than tower bells do! They also have the advantage of a dampner (so you can stop the reverb when you want), more accurate tuning (so you get fewer weird harmonics), and the bells can be struck in any order or rhthym.
@@spil030 That may be how the sounds are produced. But I was thinking of the effect which they are designed to imitate. Namely, when bells are used to celebrate some important event. A series of descending notes from scales. I realize now that English bells may not be able to do that.
@@thrunsalmighty6863 Well, yes and no. The scale there would be what we'd do in changeringing. You can hear it at the start and end of any performance. But then in this song after the scale they go off and do something else :)
@@spil030 You mean that bell ringers start by practicing their scales? I am guessing that if you only have five bells (for example), then you can't get a scale out of them. But perhaps five consecutive notes from a scale would do. You certainly could not get a "melody", as I remember hearing when I lived in Belgium. After a few years, such a melody can become rather tiresome. I shall study your video when I have the time. And during the forthcoming coronation, I may hear more bells than I know what to do with. Thanks for your reply.
Great vlog
Loved this video. Thank you so much for making it and for your clear explanations!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi there Scott, I'm a tower captain in the UK and I have a bunch of new folks coming along to try out ringing. I watched your video and think it's a great introduction , so I'm going to show it to my learners too, thank you for putting it up on UA-cam =)
Thanks Richard! I've been slowly making a list of other videos I'd like to make, so if you think of anything, let me know, and I'll add it to my list. We've got a video on the health & safety induction for visitors, and I'm thinking to also do one for visiting film crews and contractors who will go into spaces the public don't go into.
Can any of you camp people (campanologists, I mean) help me out?
At 02:02 in the wonderful recording of the "spoof" version of Ave Maria by Vavilov/Caccini, as sung by Sumi Jo,
(ua-cam.com/video/fjZ8fBGtMaI/v-deo.html)
the orchestration sounds like a glorious peel of bells.
And I told an email correspondent so.
And I further asserted that they must be English bells, because no other country rings its bells in this way.
Only later did I realise that I had no idea what I was talking about.
Can anybody rescue my credibility?
Listening to them, it's probably a set of orchestral tubular bells. You see these a lot in performances of Holst and in Christmas concerts. They're not that big (maybe an inch or two across and maybe 6 feet long) and are struck with hammers or mallets, but annoyingly sound more like tower bells than tower bells do! They also have the advantage of a dampner (so you can stop the reverb when you want), more accurate tuning (so you get fewer weird harmonics), and the bells can be struck in any order or rhthym.
@@spil030
That may be how the sounds are produced.
But I was thinking of the effect which they are designed to imitate.
Namely, when bells are used to celebrate some important event.
A series of descending notes from scales.
I realize now that English bells may not be able to do that.
@@thrunsalmighty6863 Well, yes and no. The scale there would be what we'd do in changeringing. You can hear it at the start and end of any performance. But then in this song after the scale they go off and do something else :)
@@spil030
You mean that bell ringers start by practicing their scales?
I am guessing that if you only have five bells (for example), then you can't get a scale out of them.
But perhaps five consecutive notes from a scale would do.
You certainly could not get a "melody", as I remember hearing when I lived in Belgium.
After a few years, such a melody can become rather tiresome.
I shall study your video when I have the time.
And during the forthcoming coronation, I may hear more bells than I know what to do with.
Thanks for your reply.
@@thrunsalmighty6863 Have a listen to pretty much any of the recordings over at: www.youtube.com/@st_matts_bells