Charles "strikes" again.....

[MickyD]

Now look what he is up to...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01803s3

[Richard Tarleton]

Now look what he is up to...

Wasn't sure which Charles to expect there - a new campanile in Poundbury perfectly feasible, I'm sure the residents would be delighted....

A church near me has three bells, one of them cracked, which they ring ceaselessly and tunelessly at the slightest excuse.

[MrGongGong]

Lets hope there is a discussion of whether it's music or not !
I often use bell ringing as an example of a sonic art that isn't (usually ) considered music by its practitioners yet to those who listen hear it as music

but i suspect that's not on the agenda

there are some really interesting things about old sets of bells in that they can be the only surviving physical evidence of how people perceived tuning. In some places there have been attempts to "retune" bells so that the intervals correspond to equal temperament .........

[Richard Tarleton]

Lets hope there is a discussion of whether it's music or not !
I often use bell ringing as an example of a sonic art that isn't (usually ) considered music by its practitioners yet to those who listen hear it as music

but i suspect that's not on the agenda

there are some really interesting things about old sets of bells in that they can be the only surviving physical evidence of how people perceived tuning. In some places there have been attempts to "retune" bells so that the intervals correspond to equal temperament .........

I shall definitely watch this - record it, rather, as it clashes with Frozen Planet! I did a bit of bellringing in a cathedral bell tower when I was young, but understood nothing about the tuning, or the rationale of the "changes", and the people in charge seemed more interested in it as a social activity...so I shall listen and hope to learn.

[Ferretfancy]

Perhaps he might get trapped in a belfry while the flood alarms ring, like the unfortunate character in DL Sayers The Nine Tailors! Still, the programme should be fun.

[Bryn]

Seems to me that the Beeb has simply booked Charlie a seat on a bandwagon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFHjc3vrdBA

http://cccbr.org.uk/olympics/

Pleasantly surprised to find the handbell 'simulation' linked to in the cccbr link above is a 320kbps mp3.

[salymap]

I hope he's not wearing his clogs, those stairs are rather steep I believe.

I shall watch, he is a good musician and a colourful, if hairy chested populariser.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i deplore anything which makes people more likely to ring church bells .... this cruel and unusual pastime is as indefensible as the now unused stocks in the market place ....

[MrGongGong]

and specially for Calum (just think what it will sound like when they get big ones !!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9sjnSWSH7o

[Flosshilde]

Perhaps he might get trapped in a belfry while the flood alarms ring, like the unfortunate character in DL Sayers The Nine Tailors! Still, the programme should be fun.

Not the flood alarms; the character died while tied up in the belfrey during an attempt at a record number of changes which lasted the whole night between New Year's Eve & New Year's Day. The flood alarms gave Wimsey the key to solving the mystery of the death.

I've always liked the sound of change ringing - it's so quintesentially English - I don't think anywhere else does it?

[MrGongGong]

I've always liked the sound of change ringing - it's so quintesentially English - I don't think anywhere else does it?

I don't think they do
which is one reason to preserve it

like i say far too many times......... cheese & beer

[Bryn]

Promoted by this thread, now spinning here, Alec Hill's Large Change Machine (PTO Orangery Concert 1972):

http://www.experimentalmusic.co.uk/Experimental_Music_Catalogue/Who_are_the_PTO.html

[MrGongGong]

Great stuff Bryn
and impressive that its not "Bell set #1"

[Bryn]

Great stuff Bryn
and impressive that its not "Bell set #1"

Heh, heh. Think I will be heading for All Saints, Kingston-upon-Thames on New Year's Eve.

[amateur51]

I hope he's not wearing his clogs, those stairs are rather steep I believe.

I shall watch, he is a good musician and a colourful, if hairy chested populariser.

Do you prefer your popularisers to be glabrous, salymap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOsYN---eGk