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Sound Control

Ultimo Aggiornamento: 19/06/2009 00:09
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14/06/2009 23:03

In England church towers sometimes give the sound of bells too loudly. It is able to alter the volume of bells by using "sound control" .

see www.chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk/blue1/MajorWorksProgessPhotosS...
15/06/2009 07:56

The concept is same as in expressive cases in swell Organ divisions, even if this device cannot perform smooth and high dynamic range crescendo and diminuendo, because there is no need to operte in this way with Bells.
I wonder why people complained about the music, as if it were mere noise!
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Cinghiale1966, 6/15/2009 7:56 AM:

The concept is same as in expressive cases in swell Organ divisions, even if this device cannot perform smooth and high dynamic range crescendo and diminuendo, because there is no need to operte in this way with Bells.
I wonder why people complained about the music, as if it were mere noise!



Very true. It is like an organ. There are different designs. There are also towers with simple windows which have to be closed and opened by someone climbing to the belfry. Sometimes a tower has a spire and there is a horizontal door which can be opened to let the sound of the bells into the spire, to spread the sound through the windows in the spire higher and further away.

Sound control is needed for many reasons. Some towers are used for many peals (3 hours of non stop ringing). Some towers are very loud! Some towers have neighbouring residents who complain a lot and get their way. Often we used to tell the neighbours to go away when they complained but now there is a law about noise nuisance. So the ringers have to silence bells that have been there for hundreds of years!

Then there is a sound box, on the roof of a tower. One can be seen on the south tower of Lincoln Cathedral which contains a peal of 12 bells. The belfry windows are blocked apart from a space at the top. A sound box disperses the bells over a further distance

photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v73/201/79/507862930/n507862930_64850_... (left hand tower)


16/06/2009 08:31

I could agreee that the sound of the Bell is loud, or, at least, it is rated lod by someone, but were not the Bells cast in order to ring loud, so that their sound can be heard all around?
Do people who complain about music (not noise!) know that the Bells are on the belfry and ring from many years before they arrived to live in that buildings?
Of course, I know that the rehearsal sessions could be boring, but I think taht music is better than noise.
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Cinghiale1966, 6/16/2009 8:31 AM:

know that the Bells are on the belfry and ring from many years before they arrived to live in that buildings?



Very True!!!

"You moved to live here last week and you come and complain about a bell that was cast in 1624 and has rung from this tower ever since then? Go away!"

That's what I want to say to to people
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