English Bell Ringing Full Circle

This video was taken after routine bell maintainance at St Mary's Church in the Village of Langley (UK). Bells in the UK are rang full circle as demonstrated here.

The bell is tested, rang up, stopped and rang down. Once "rung up" the bell can he left in an upward position by means of resting it on a wooden stay. Again demonstrated in the video.

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Music

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• bell
• ringing
• church
• english
• campanology

[24308548]

Trouble setting on the back stroke there, love watching bells ring tho!!

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The person who was ringing was doing whole pulls only.

[JesGreaves]

123456 214365 241635 426153 462513 645231 654321 563412 536142 351624 315264 132546 123456 Good stuff - that will help a learner visualise what's happening above.

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Oh yes ... so much clearer now :D

[dtr748]

Bellringing is an art, and a quite difficult one too. Tt's also good exercise (so long as you don't annoy the neighbours). Practice nights can be jolly social affairs and used to end down the local. It doesn't make you a religious nut. You can visit other towers and are supposed to be made welcome.As with any club there can often be a few awkward sods. Why not try it and see if it grabs you. A lot to learn, a lot to know and you can ring from 9 to 90 (years). Methods are great if only in theory.

[sango1161]

oww that hurts my ears like crazy but i love the sound of the bell

[churchlad]

what a wonderful sound

[bookworm266]

The cameraman must be absolutely deafened. If that was me I'd be wearing ear plugs and ear defenders.

[1BODGER95]

WHITECHAPEL HEHEHE

[1BODGER95]

Stick a bit of tape round it, it'll be fine

XD

[TotallyBursar]

"Stay's split too" Never a good thing to hear...