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This MIGHT BECOME a list of notable, significant places where individual bells (and carillons?) can be wrung by the public.

Ireland
United States
  • Not sure if Mayer Red Brick Schoolhouse can be included, would need a source that its historic school bell can be rung by visitors to the school district offices that occupy it. Can that properly be said to be open to the public?


There exists List of carillons, which are played by keyboards only? It doesn't include Church of St Anne, Shandon, because that is in Ireland and while it includes sublist of those in the "British isles", so northern Ireland, or is the nation of Ireland included? Or is it excluded because it might have an automated system to play the bells? The bells can definitely be played individually. I think you have to wind up something to be able to power the bell-pulling? Or is that electric-powered and therefore not legit for list of carillons?


There is Cornell Chimes, but that is not included in List of carillons in the United States, why not?


Other lists of bells that exist (now put into new Category:Lists of bells):

OR, INSTEAD PERHAPS

This is a list of notable individual bells? and bell towers? and carillons? There are 97 members of Category:Bell towers in the United States. E.g. Albany City Hall has a bell tower with a carillon involving 49 bells. How about listing bells, bell towers, and carillons in the United States by state? And which ones are open to the public could be noted.

List of individual bells

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INDIVIDUAL BELLS, ANYHOW, are:

in Myanmar
in the United States
elsewhere
Church Image Dates Location City, State, Nation Description Ringing frequency
Freedom Bell 1950 Rathaus Schöneberg West Berlin, Germany 10-ton bell arrived from the British bell foundry of Gillett & Johnston
Big Ben (bell) 1858 cast at Whitechapel Bell Foundry London, United Kingdom 13.5-ton (13.76-tonne) Hourly from 8am to 11pm M-Sat; to 9pm Su.[2]
Great Paul (bell), 1881 cast St Paul's Cathedral London, United Kingdom 16.75 imperial tons[3] Special occasions[3]
Great Tom (bell), St Paul's Cathedral London, United Kingdom Over 5 imperial tons[3] Hourly[3]
Bell of Batoche Canada
Bell of Cheonheungsa from the Cheonheungsa Temple near Seonggeo Mountain Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
Bell of Good Luck 2000 cast Pingdingshan, Henan, China
Bell of Sangwonsa Sangwonsa temple Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea
Bell of Yongjusa 854 cast temple of Yongjusa, near Suwon Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng a set of bells
Bridge of Nations Bell
Bell of Chersonesos 1778 cast ruins of Chersonesos Taurica Crimea, Ukraine/Russia Fog bell, one of the main sights of Sevastopol, taken to France & returned
Bell of Frog Lake Canada
Bell of King Seongdeok
Klang Bell 200 BC British Museum London, United Kingdom 7.4 kg found in the city of Klang, Selangor, Malaysia
List of Hitler bells small, not individually known
Lullusglocke 1038 cast monastery Bad Hersfeld, Hesse, Germany Sounds like
The sound of the Lullusglocke
Maria Gloriosa, aka Erfurt Bell 1497 cast Erfurt Cathedral Erfurt, Germany the largest medieval free-swinging bell?
Olympic Bell 2011 or 2012 cast by Royal Eijsbouts, Netherlands Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park London, United Kingdom 22 long tons 18 cwt 3 qr 13 lb (51,393 lb or 23.311 t)
Oxford Electric Bell
Petersglocke 1923 cast by Heinrich Ulrich in Apolda South tower of Cologne Cathedral Germany Second largest (horizontally mounted) freely swinging ringable bell in the world
Bell of the People's Salvation Cathedral 2016 cast by Grassmayr, Austria People's Salvation Cathedral Bucharest, Romania 25,190 kg, largest (horizontally mounted) freely swinging ringable bell in the world
Pummerin
Pyongyang Bell
Revere Bell c.1843 cast by Revere Copper Company, Boston National Museum of Singapore Singapore Gift from wife of U.S. consul, who was daughter of Paul Revere
Rhodesian Independence Bell 1966 cast in Netherlands Salisbury, Rhodesia 250 pounds (110 kg) last rung in 1978
Sebastapol Bell, Windsor Windsor Castle Windsor Trophy from Crimean War
The Sigismund Bell, aka Zygmunt Bell 1520 cast by Hans Behem Wawel Cathedral
50°03′17″N 19°56′09″E / 50.05472°N 19.93583°E / 50.05472; 19.93583 (Sigismund Bell) 		Kraków, Poland 13 tonnes, named for King Sigismund I Special occasions
Tamil bell
Tsar Bell 1735 cast Moscow Kremlin
55°45′03″N 37°37′06″E / 55.75083°N 37.61833°E / 55.75083; 37.61833 (Tsar Bell) 		Moscow, Russia Very large It has never been in working order, suspended, nor rung.
Tuba Dei c.1500? cast by Martin Schmidt [[Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, Toruń|Ss. Johns Cathedral]
53°00′33″N 18°36′22″E / 53.00917°N 18.60611°E / 53.00917; 18.60611 (Tuba Dei) 		Toruń, Poland 7,500 kg one of the largest medieval bells in Europe
Thornan (bell) Uppsala Cathedral Uppsala?, Sweden taken from Toruń as war booty in 1703 by Swedish forces of Carl XII during the Great Northern War, having replaced bells destroyed in the Uppsala Fire of 1702.
Victoria Tower Bell 1875 cast in Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada fell in 1916 fire --
Wei Bin's Temple Bell 1518 cast Royal Ontario Museum Toronto, Ontario, Canada from China? Taiwan?
St. Urban Bell 1557 cast by Franciscus Illenfeld seven tonnes, destroyed in 1966 fire --

List of bell foundries

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LIST OF BELL FOUNDRIES?

Bells are not easy to make and tune. Well-tuned bells have a hum tone that is near an octave below the strike tone, and other partials. Other notes in large bells that should ideally be in tune include the minor third, fifth, octave, and major third and fifth in the second octave. [adapted from Erfurt Bell article].

François and Pieter Hemeny "developed their ability to build and tune carillons in close cooperation with Jacob van Eyck, a musician and composer who developed a method of precisely identifying the overtones of bells. Van Eyck, appointed city carillonneur of Utrecht in 1642, had drawn the attention of leading scientists of his day, such as Christiaan Huygens (his relative) and René Descartes[citation needed], with his ability to isolate five partials of a bell by whistling to create sympathetic resonance. / When struck, a bell produces a number of partials which, if imprecisely tuned, can create an unpleasant sound and which prevents it from harmonizing in accordance with other bells. To address this problem, the Hemony brothers gave their bells a particular profile and thickened it in certain places. The bells were then tuned by hollowing ridges from specific parts of the inner wall until the first few partials were acceptably in tune." [from Pieter and François Hemony article]


United States
United Kingdom
Russia
elsewhere


modern craftspersons/artists maybe not notable


See also

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References

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  1. ^ Antonis Tsapepas (July 20, 2019). "Shandon Bells - ring the bells of a historic church". Food and Travel.
  2. ^ Patricia Smith (January 9, 2023). "How Often Does Big Ben Chime?". Historic Cornwall.
  3. ^ a b c d "St. Paul's Cathedral: The bells". Retrieved June 23, 2023.

Category:Lists of historic places Category:Lists of bells Category:Bells (percussion) Category:Carillons

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