Bells are important, actually. Here's an article about something I'd never thought of before: that the Nazis removed thousands of them during World War 2 with the intention of melting them down and re-using the metals for weaponry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/arts/nazis-church-bells-ww2.html?unlocked_article_code=1._08.kKqo.9ETWH3fre0mS&smid=url-share

#bells #campanology

The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left “a sonic gap” in the landscape.

The New York Times
Ding dong! 🔔 Turns out the #British found a new way to jingle their bells, and it's so revolutionary you’ll need a #subscription to Harper's to read about it. Because nothing screams cutting-edge #innovation like #medieval #campanology. 🙄
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/10/a-change-of-tune-veronique-greenwood-bell-ringing/ #News #HackerNews #ngated
A Change of Tune, by Veronique Greenwood

A revolution in English bell ringing

Harper's Magazine

#FotoVorschlag 'Glocken'

Eines meiner Lieblingsbücher. Lange nicht gelesen, und es wird auch dauern, bis ich die ganze Reihe wieder genießen kann. Aber ein richtig gutes Buch, besonders, wenn man Interesse an Glocken hat.

#Wechselläuten #Campanology #Krimi #DorothyLSayers

A Melrose family tradition – the Dodds run of beadles and abbey bellringers

Found this in the Berwickshire News, 14 June 1949 tonight. It describes the long-running family history of my maternal ancestors acting as beadles or church officers for Melrose parish, and in part…

Viv's Ancestry Blog

@FourT4

Now you have me wondering:

What sort of god would recycling and rubbish bins worship?

What do the church-bell dingly-donglers know that we do not?

#theology #campanology

The new chair has a recline mode.

The church bell dingly-donglers in the distance are faintly dingly-dongling. F—E—D—C F—E—D—C F—E—D—C

Give them a couple of centuries's more practice and maybe they'll get on to a 2nd tune. (-:

I think that that's the sound of my neighbour putting xyr bins out.

Wait! Is it bin day tomorrow?

#campanology

synth.is / kromosynth

evolutionary sound synthesis

When campanologists do overtime do they get paid chime and a half, or double chime? #Campanology #Campanologists #BellRinging
A fun, and different few hours spent on a saturday afternoon. Fixing an old church bell in #wicklow #campanology #hollywood #bell
After learning the ropes with tied bells at Christ Church St Lawrence, Sydney, I rang for the first time at St John's Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane! #campanology #funatchurch