Ring the bells that still can ring
August 30, 2014 12:05 AM Subscribe
How did something as loud as a bell—something which is experienced so much more often, and more powerfully, by hearing than by sight—become dumb?
A dumbbell originally referred to equipment simulating a bell rope that did not make a noise, used for practicing bell ringing technique and developing strength.
[T]he possible combinations presented by eight bells (40,320 changes) would [...] have taken over thirty-seven hours to fully work through.Katherine Hunt writes on the history of change ringing, in which multiple bells are rung in varying orders without repeating the same pattern. See more Youtube videos.
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