Westminster Abbey bells on the Royal Wedding day (29-04-2011)

[ramfan1981]

its ether kent or cambrigh royal

[HONGYOUNGEUN]

i can hear pipe organ bass too!

[shiptech2k9]

/watch?v=DK8uMGT01wA This is a video of the bell ringers in Westminster Abbey

[eSharkuk]

@shiptech2k9 Nice ;)

[YankeePat94]

No dislikes! Thank God!

[EbClectic]

Crazy bell lovers. One day them damn things is gonna fall on your heads...

[irkibby]

@EbClectic remarkably idiotic thing to say.

[EbClectic]

@irkibby LMAO!

[Poldersiel]

Wunderschönes angelsächsisches Geläut. Gruß

[clochebell]

Definitely rung by an experienced team of change ringers who are situated way below the bells. A complete change of ringing can last for a very long period of time!

[eSharkuk]

@clochebell Oh yes. It was Royal Wedding. So ... everything was HIGH standard ;)

[irkibby]

@Kevin36097 these bells are in the North West tower... or the left hand side tower as you tlook at the west front. There are no other heavier bells.

[TownieGirl1974]

The last time I remember hearing those bells was on the day of Princess Diana's funeral......to hear them here at such a happy occasion was welcome indeed....

[323mooman]

@eSharkuk they are ringing the full 3 hours of a standard peal

[323mooman]

am i right in saying it was spliced suprise

[churchlad]

these bells are rung by rope and hand - English Change ringing - amazing ringing- well practiced!

[irkibby]

A few days ago I met one of the ringers who was actually rang for the Royal Wedding, he'll be on one of the bells in this very video. He has a piece of their cake :)

[Supertopmodell]

Beautiful :)

[FergusMcDopey]

A glorious sound!!!

[TheAudric09]

there are 10 bell ringers ONLY in Westminster.

[SrWilson3s]

Fine bells great ring of 10 rung very well on the day its just a shame not many people outside the clique of ASOCY get to ring them.

Suppoedly the best ringers of all but thats down to opinion half i think just got lucky theres many many great ringers out there who would be more than capable of ringing like these ringers.

A fellow ringer of mine was given the chance to become a member of the ASOCY but he declined it as he was happy as he was ringing in village. And not be seen as snobby

[brookwall]

Westminster Abbey bells , also the organ can be heard i would say..

[PhilNile]

Esharkuk knows nothing about ringing then.. If he thinks its Automatic..

But Thanks for the video anyway. I missed this clip.

[eSharkuk]

@PhilNile Yap. It seems I know nothing ... :)

[PhilNile]

@eSharkuk Don't worry, it took me a year to learn how to do Ringing, which is quite quickly according to my local ringers.

[MsFishty]

Loved these bells and the base notes of the organ below. Well done! Would love to see these in action for real, very much different from our carillon in Cobh. It takes one person to play our 49 bells, but it takes a much larger commitment from many more people to play your bells. Superb!

[girigor57]

The peal rung for the Royal Wedding was 'Spliced Surprise Royal', performed under the direction of the conductor, David Hilling. The peal length had 5,040 changes.

[girigor57]

There are 12 ringers - some of the best in the UK, and they ring using the unique English 'change ringing' techniques developed over 400 years ago. The 'peal' they rang lasted about 3½ hours and is one of about 6,000 "methods". These have to be leant by heart before ringing.

[dhmusicat]

@girigor57 There were actually 10 ringers - one for each bell - and they were ringing spliced surprise royal which ,involves more than one method!

[Gophobos]

@girigor57 there are ten ringers and they are ringing two methods.

[1BODGER95]

@girigor57 10 ringers.

[heyscriptboard]

they are definitely not automated, they are rung by hand for over 3 hours at a time to ring a peal.

[Nibelungenfrau]

Ohhh well thanks soo much for your video. Glad to find this here. I loved the whole ceremony so much. Beautiful.

[nuttyteacher]

It was amazing when the bells started ringing. They only give a full peal on important royal or national occasions. It was a really special thing to listen to.

[barbara5706]

Wish I could have seen them pull these ropes. Three hours is a long time for anyone to continue ringing these. They must have done it in shifts?

[bellminsterboy]

@barbara5706 no they dont. it is clled ringing a peal and nobody swaps a takes a break

[WrongAndHome]

@barbara5706 Peals have been rung where they have taken turns but that was when they were ringing for 27 hours. In 3 hour peals they do not as they are considered to be of short length.

[kdadnick]

If you do a google search on "westminster abbey" carillon bells royal wedding you will find a good article posted....I could not attach it here.

[kdadnick]

Definitely rung by hand - all 5,000 blare (sequences) memorized, no repeats.

[eSharkuk]

Ringers? I think it must be mechanic.

[tethyssea]

@eSharkuk They aren't mechanical: this video is taken from above - the ringers stand in a room below the bells to ring them.

[eSharkuk]

@tethyssea I don't think so that somebody was doing it for hours. it must be connected to ... something 'automatic'

[tethyssea]

@eSharkuk The whole point of english-style bell-ringing is that one bell is rung by one person for the duration of the ringing. A peal (where the bells are rung for about 3 hours) is a reasonably common thing to perform - there are people who make a habit out of ringing 'long-length' peals which go on for much longer than that.

[rt18uk]

@eSharkuk As a bellringer, I can promise you this was rung by a band of bellringers. They will literally have been in the ringing chamber together, for hours, ringing this 'song' (called a method - Steadman I believe)

[simonbellringer]

@rt18uk No, the tenor is playing, this would have been the Spliced London & Bristol after the wedding!!!

Would love to come and ring here, maybe one day...

[1BODGER95]

@rt18uk it's not stedman, the tenor's inside.

[WrongAndHome]

@rt18uk It was London and Bristol spliced royal

[ajrawlinson1]

@rt18uk it's not stedman... noticed the tenors inside?? it sounds like bristol :P

[simonbellringer]

@ajrawlinson1 I think this must have been the peal of Spliced Bristol/London Royal!! They rang about 1000 changes of Stedman before the wedding, and a peal of about 5040 changes (though possibly more!!) afterwards.

[HytheBoatman]

@ajrawlinson1 I agree with you

[irkibby]

@eSharkuk Ten ringers.

[PhilNile]

@eSharkuk A Peal which is a Call Change ring, can take up to 3 hours, No Breaks..

[churchlad]

@eSharkuk there are people on the end of the ropes pulling these bells - they rang a peal - thats over three hours of ringing non stop!

[simonbellringer]

@churchlad Yep, Spliced London/Bristol Royal!!

[ajrawlinson1]

@eSharkuk no... they definately stood there for 3 hours mate :P

[muse4life61]

@ajrawlinson1 wow! i have never seen bells like that before that was lovely the way they was turning inside and out.

[Organgrinder1010]

@eSharkuk It takes one human being for each individual bell. Ringing changes is incredibly complex to a non-ringer, but there's no sound more beautiful anywhere within hearing range.

[campanesganny]

@tethyssea Dio vi Benedica per questo Meraviglioso concerto  Dio salvi la regina

[WrongAndHome]

@eSharkuk Why would they have wheels if there was no rope?

[sophelet]

Fascinating! I'm amazed at how long the bells were rung. Three hours? Who were the ringers?

[GEdgemaster]

@sophelet A peal database is kept, listing all such performances, the entry for the wedding peal is here: peals.co.uk/pealdetails.asp?se­rno=T2011/1178

[eSharkuk]

;)

[missjo797]

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