Bell Ringing - The Science Of Church Bells

[collegefootballrulez]

How old is this church?

[happywanderer34]

jrr1234567890, Bell ringing has been part of British culture for at least 500 years and will continue to do so for many years to come, it keeps you mentally + physically fit and if there are some people who think it is noise pollution then if you buy a house near a church with bells then the bells have been there longer than you, and you should do your research before buying, so tough

[happywanderer34]

jrr1234567890, Bell ringing is part of the fabric of Britain it has been done for at least 500 years and it will continue to do so for many years to come it is great for team work as it is the ultimate team activity and it also keeps you fit! It is something that you are continually learning and it keeps you mentally fit also. And for those who think it is noise pollution, the bells were probably there in the church well before you and you decided to buy a house near a church with bells so tough

[DWileyOne]

Amazingly, the mystery writer Dorothy Sayers wrote a murder mystery entitled Nine Tailors, which revolves around a church and the bell-ringers. Several of her characters go into quite a bit of detail about the sequences, and she also includes side notes. The information was such that it made me search YouTube for "change-ringing" and discovered this super video. If Ms. Sayers' information is not fictional (and I would guess she did her homework), there are some very complicated sequences.

[jrr1234567890]

I hate bell ringing. noise pollution.

[WeeWyllie]

@jrr1234567890: If you really mean this, then you have no soul .. and I have been a fierce atheist all my life! 

[PavloLashkevych2009]

Happy 2011! You are BELL-RINGER THE GREAT!!! As it seems to Me. Paul V. Lashkevich (bell- ringer & expert on b.-r.)

[FSXISCOOL]

nice professional documentary ...cool!

[gday1111111]

EVERYONE FAVOURITE THIS IMMEDIATELY

[dreamchildworld]

This is a great video of you doing bellringing as I'm a bellringer myself in Staffordshire. I have been trying to find the church you ring at on google but I can't find it so can you tell me which part of Heartfordshire it's in

Thanks Richard

[kerrykez13]

@dreamchildworld I've only just seen this message, sorry Richard. The interior scenes are filmed at a church called St. Giles in South Mymms. It's just off the M25. Thy have practice nights on Thursdays and anyone is welcome.

Cheers. Kerry.

[flybynight420]

Cool video. Glad someone took the time to do something like this. Only crit would be that I would have liked to have had a better example of the number method for bell ringing. Like perhaps a video clip. But overall very good, glad to see someone trying to do something positive :)

[kerrykez13]

@flybynight420 I've been thinking about doing some new films explaining different methods for beginners, with diagrams and commentary as I ring them. So a short film explaining Bob Doubles or Grandsire for example, with a camera in the tower showing how the method is rung. Do you think this sort of thing could be useful?

[flybynight420]

@kerrykez13 I think that would be perfect! As far as I am aware there is nothing out there which does this. I can only speak for myself, but I'd love to see such a video. Good luck with your work :)

[LeonieLuvsMichaelJac]

haha geazer ;) x

[BillMassey94]

with a xylophone there are also resinace tubes...

[faunflynn]

Permutations, combinotorics etc etc etc...

They could have explained this better.

ie. The changes etc and how they are generated by swapping the last 2 values in the sequence on each round.

[rogiet3]

a good item on MonTv firdt go to Caldicot Benefice then tower bells then hit ringing the changes Montv

[Knappa22]

That girl did a crap job of explaining change-ringing 1.25-1.43.

Nice vid though - loved the presenter. No way was he a beginner.

[philipbebb]

bells

[aalexander928]

Love this vid and love your sense of humor and your accent!

[pal05pmajor3]

are you a ringer or something because you rang that bell ever so well.

[kirby4d]

If this is amateur, it looks very well done for amateur.

The only complaint I have is you don't have much of a transitional voice when you go between scenes. It's like you abruptly stop mid sentence instead of flowing into the next part. Maybe it's just me...

[TotallyBursar]

If that is how the young man talks, then that is how he talks. You might well sound unintelligable to him. And lets not forget this is a clip from a children's show. They are hardly going to be selecting their presenters on the basis of their accent are they?

[kerrykez13]

Hi TB, thanks for sticking up for me!

As for marcoxyzxyz, I'm sorry that you 'deplore' my accent. I'm afraid it's something that I cannot help. And anyway, I'm quite fond of the way I speak.

But anyway, the clip didn't actually get used for a television show though, I just made it as a bit of fun with my handheld camera.

[TotallyBursar]

Don't worry about it, I grew up in Gloucestershire, and am now studying at Liverpool, so I'm used to having lots of different accents! =)

[C42H62O16]

LOL! Don't worry, Kez, I'm a Marco's friend; he's an accent fundamentalist! I study phonetics in Venice and although you do not speak the Queen's English, I absolutely love your Estuary accent!!

Great vid, guy. Hope to see soon your next work.

Giacomo

[gundamF9]

@kerrykez13 i lov your british accent =D

[northumberlandgirl]

yes, we have 3 of them on the roof, and one on the steeple. it's so bizaar, how many churches in the world have bells in their towers, i never hear of them burning down cuz of lightning..only at our church would someone bring up such a ridiculous argument!

[marcoxyzxyz]

I am ashamed to confess that in those cases I find myself helpless: I put down my dagger and I surrender my British-accent-loving ears to the American networks... blushing sadly to death. What is the main cause of this wretched phenomenon? A pandemic explosion of pneumonia, bronchitis or similar pathologies that make young Britons unable to breathe smoothly and, therefore, force them to chew and to swallow so many precious consonants and vowels?

[EbClectic]

Dude. you brits ALWAYS sounded this way. This swallowing of consonants and vowels is really typical. Is we recognize yall´s accent

You go Kerrykez. Nice vid. Unfortunately we do not ring bells like this in Germany. We just let them bong away which sounds a little "phobic" to my ears. As a kid i was afraid of bells until i heard british pattern ringin. Nice!

[marcoxyzxyz]

Call it "Estuary", "Modern British Accent" or whatever you want, but it sounds totally rigmarole to me. This kind of... well, articulated (?) speech has invaded the media too, to such an extent, that sometimes even the BBC newscasters seem they are talking Sanskrit instead.

[marcoxyzxyz]

Love the video and Ye Olde Arte of Ringing Bells. I liked it since I was a child. The video is a good one, too. As a foreigner, nevertheless, I can't but deplore the highly clipped, hic-hic-hiccough kind of language this guy speaks, and which we poor non-Britons find so distastefully hard to understand.

[Umesehaunenolapasi]

Very interesting... Thanks for the vid!

[thebestministrante]

very interesting

[jontiways]

i ring these in tewin in herts im not that bad...

[mjay22]

An excellent brief documentary on churchbells with the science (sound effects) and maths (numbering of the bell-ringing that creates a lovely ringing pattern) parts, but as a man of fashion, I just can't stop criticising the clothes the bloke wore on the video - they clash, and he needs a better combination of clothes to look good.

[kerrykez13]

Haha. Glad you liked the video, but I'm afraid I'm gonna disagree with you over my fashion sense! I reckon I do alright.

Lol. Anyway, I'm currently filming another video for my third year project. It's going to be called something like 'The Geography of the River Thames'. I'll try and dress more to your liking this time! Haha.

[northumberlandgirl]

i love bells, our church has a bell but they never ring it...it's very frustrating. It was fully restored about 4 years ago, but one of the old men on the council convinced them not to put it in the tower cuz it would attract lightning to the church..egads!

[elton1981]

Have they not heard of a conductor rod?

[dean89]

so cute

is he gay?

[ThomasGrillo]

Thanks for posting this. It's very informative, and to the point.

[chandos47]

Excellent video, well done!

[Bellringer55]

hi! I'm a bellringer from Northern Ireland and i hace been ringing 4 nearly a year now. nice video!

[Skezbow]

Nice to know some of my footage got in to it, thank you! would of been nice if you had told me lol.

[kerrykez13]

Hey, sorry about that. I grabbed some of the footage off youtube, as there were some places I just wasn't able to go, or some clips which were better than mine!!!

Hope that's all ok. Sorry about not letting you know!

[WillMorgan6205]

Kez, we could use a couple of younger people at St Peter's, Berkhamsted- I reckon within 10 years I'll be left with 8 bells to myself!

[fabianstedman]

Well done. This deserves a much wider audience.

[ProfMoose]

One of the best ringing vids I've seen. Well impressed!

[sowise]

brilliant video. pretty good at presenting ringing as something that young people mite actually wna do!! which, of course, it is!! well done

[SrWilson]

I thought it might possibly have a chime but if you say no bells at all then that clears that.

Nice to see another young ringer on here,im 22 by the way.

[SrWilson]

Ah right thanks for the info finally ill just ask you said the church inside shots were different to the church outside does the church in the outside shots not have a ring of bells?

[kerrykez13]

nope, no bells. it's a shame, because it's the closest church to where i live whilst at uni. would be quite handy if it did.

[SrWilson]

Oh one last thing out of curiousity is this church your local tower?

[kerrykez13]

I ring in Hertfordshire at St. Margaret's in Ridge, but the church (inside shots) is St. Giles in South Mymms. We share the same tower captain and ringers though as both villages are close. Also, my church is smaller and access to the bells would have been much harder.

I have to admit though, the outside shots are from a different church altogether, a church in Surrey.

But anyway, thanks for the comments, glad you enjoyed it!

[SrWilson]

Well fair enough Kez that clears that up LOL was a good report you did on it though *thumbs up*.

[SrWilson]

what I find funny is the presenter is ringing the bells in the video yet he is apparently not a bell ringer and is there to see how they work yet they got him there ringing rounds etc and I know learners do not pick up ringing THAT fast if they really are new to it that they can ring rounds and changes in little time at all.

Ive rung bells for many years Ive never seen a learner master ringing in a day LOL.

[kerrykez13]

True, true. I've been ringing for well over 10 years. But I wanted to present it with a sense of curiosity.  Hopefully non-ringers wouldn't pick up on it.

Good spot by the way!

[hyprmut]

I am a "non-ringer" and I did wonder at the smooth way you handled that. Nice video. And informative.

[mjgriff74]

Excellent vid! I've just started learning to ring so found it really interesting!