Talk:Veronese bell ringing

Translation

By rounding bells do you mean ringing the bells full circle? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing you are not a native English speaker. To me rounding bells implies smoothing off the corners, clearly not what is meant here! If I've misunderstood feel free to correct it. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 12:20, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Giuseppe II, sacred emperor

Who was Guiseppe II? Is "sacred emperor" an accurate translations, and if so what was his full title? Martin of Sheffield (talk) 12:28, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Qintal

The Gardello clock bell is stated as weighing "about 18 quintals". How heavy is a quintal in this usage please. quintal is not much help, It appears it could be between 50 and 125 kg! Martin of Sheffield (talk) 12:31, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Solved, the Bagley page states that bells are weighed in "quintali" of 100 kg. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 16:14, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Cleanup tasks

I've been attempting to reformat this page to read more easily. The original was clearly from a non-native English speaker but does not read like a cut-and-paste job. The originator is to be applauded for the amount of detail. However this page urgently needs:

• Proper in-line citations and references.
• Images of bells, ringers, historic figures (founders, masters) and churches.
• A review of the text to ensure I have not inadvertently changed the meaning unresonably.
• Running it through a decent BrE spell checker.

Thanks, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 11:51, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Images added from the Italian language site. The original seems to have been the Italian page run through an automatic translator. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 17:35, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Note names

Please do not change relative note names to absolute notes. It is arguable that do-mi-sol-do ought to be tonic, subdominant, dominant, top tonic but the sol-fa names are more compact. Although I gave the notes in C major as an example, unless all Veronese bells are tuned to the same scale, it cannot be right.

Apologies for the mashed up edit tag, the browser seems to have decided to do its own thing with deletions! Martin of Sheffield (talk) 19:50, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Number of active bellringers in the area of Verona.

"The supposed number of active bellringers in the area of Verona is of 150, the great part of them residing in suburbs." I'm reverting this because it is not clear when is being referred to. Does it refer to 1846-50 where the sentence was placed or to today? If the former then it needs to be recast in the past tense but if the latter it ought to be placed in Bellringing Today. It should be noted that Bagley (2007) quotes the figure of 2,500 current practitioners. A citation would be helpful. If there is a language issue, answer here and I will edit the main page accordingly. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 22:59, 25 October 2012 (UTC)