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...both objects are now much broken. Gabriel, with arms, stands before him. On the left face of the capital, Elizabeth, accompanied by a handmaiden or possibly a youth, is represented. On the right face, a genre scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer is hard at work pulling the cord of the bell under the tower. However, the bell-rope seems not to be attached to any bell, but rather to the hair of a demon perched on the summit of the tower. A cowled personage is seated beside the demon on the roof...
...Chime-Ringer I. H. Auld, who had to answer many of the indignant telephone calls, grew weary making his explanation. Like many another popular song, especially of the oldtime barroom variety, the tune of "How Dry I Am" was originally a good old hymn. Chimer Auld said he had merely been playing "O Happy Day" to which the words...
Perfect conditions of weather are necessary for the best playing of the bells, according to the present ringer, Adrian-off, formerly a Russian citizen. On summer evenings they should be heard for over 15 miles. At present the Russian finds practice necessary to recall some of the old tunes which he used to play on similar bells in Russia. Special care must be taken on cold days to warm up the metal by gentle taps, otherwise cracking might easily take place...
...special exhibition was put on for the benefit of the CRIMSON reporter who investigated the bells. With his right hand the ringer plays on cords attached to the four smallest instruments, and at the same time uses his left to man-oeuvre by means of wires all the other bells except the three largest. The 15-ton monster is operated by two men, while the next two in size are also rung by the Russian, using a foot pedal...
...bells, it was also learned, are neither a carillon nor a peal. They are merely a set of 18 Russian bells, upon which only Russian music can be played, and by a Russian bell-ringer. This last requirement is due to the fact that the tone of the bells is extremely low, lower than those of any European country, a characteristic of Russian bells. The set was secured in Leningrad, where the Soviet government had collected bells from churches all over Russia to be melted down...