Chiming the bells at the Perth Bell Tower
Beschreibung
From the website (http://www.thebelltower.com.au/): "The Bell Tower located on Riverside Drive overlooking the picturesque Swan River is one of Perth's most unique and must see tourist attractions. Filled with fascinating historic content and boasting a unique and distinctive design - resulting from a major architectural competition - it has become an icon for Perth and Western Australia.
This historic ring of bells was given to the people of Western Australia as part of the national Bicentennial celebrations in 1988. Among its many attributes the Bell Tower includes the twelve bells of St Martin-in-the-Fields, which are recorded as being in existence from before the 14th century."
We visited the Bell Tower at the end of 2014, and were fortunate to be able to attend a demonstration of chiming (and to have a go ourselves). The bell chimers have a room near the base of the tower, and there is a video link so that they can see the bells whilst chiming them. The demonstrator showed two different ways of chiming the bells: one where the bell sits "mouth up" and rotates about 380 degrees on each pull (change ringing), and the other where the bell is "mouth down", and only moves a few degrees to chime the bell. This second method only needs a little effort to keep the bell chiming - so little, that even a child could keep a 500kg bell chiming once it had been started.
This historic ring of bells was given to the people of Western Australia as part of the national Bicentennial celebrations in 1988. Among its many attributes the Bell Tower includes the twelve bells of St Martin-in-the-Fields, which are recorded as being in existence from before the 14th century."
We visited the Bell Tower at the end of 2014, and were fortunate to be able to attend a demonstration of chiming (and to have a go ourselves). The bell chimers have a room near the base of the tower, and there is a video link so that they can see the bells whilst chiming them. The demonstrator showed two different ways of chiming the bells: one where the bell sits "mouth up" and rotates about 380 degrees on each pull (change ringing), and the other where the bell is "mouth down", and only moves a few degrees to chime the bell. This second method only needs a little effort to keep the bell chiming - so little, that even a child could keep a 500kg bell chiming once it had been started.