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Bell facts for kids
A bell is a simple musical instrument. Most bells are made of metal. Bells are also in churches to announce the time between hours. Ships usually carry a ship's bell. Some bells are in bell towers.
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Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, dated 433 BC.
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Mechanism of a bell hung for English full-circle ringing. The bell can swing through a full circle in alternate directions.
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The bells of St Bees Priory shown in the "down" position, in which they are normally left between ringing sessions.
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The bells of St Bees Priory shown in the "up" position. When being rung they swing through a full circle from mouth upwards round to mouth upwards, and then back again.
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"Bell house at Shimoda" in Japan (lithograph copy of daguerreotype image, 1856)
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Buddhist bell, Rewalsar, India
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This bronze bell dated from medieval times, depicts Saints Peter, Paul, John the Evangelist, and Thomas. The Walters Art Museum.
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Spectrum of a Winchester Cathedral bell as analyzed by Jonathan Harvey using FFT. "The bell produces a secondary pitch (f') which lies outside that 'inharmonic series though it is clearly audible when the bell is struck, 'to curiously thrilling and disturbing effect.'" The strike tone is middle C, the hum tone an octave below.
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The Erfurt bell (1497) or any well-tuned bell: strike note on E, with hum note an octave below, minor third, fifth, octave or nominal, and major third and perfect fifth in the second octave.
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Petersglocke, Cologne Cathedral with person for scale
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A Warring States-era zheng (钲) bell from Baoshan 2 Tomb in Jingmen, Hubei
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This copper bell was made by pre-Columbian North American natives.
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The bell within the Clock Tower colloquially known as Big Ben.
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Mingun Bell weighs 55,555 viss, or 90 tonnes.
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Tsar Bell, by the Motorins.
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The World Peace Bell in Kentucky.
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St. Petersglocke (with person for scale).
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Bronze jingyun bell cast in the year 711 AD, Xi'an.
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St. Ulrich, Memmingen
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Japanese temple bell of the Ryōanji Temple, Kyoto
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Yongle Bell
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St Cuileain's Bell from Ireland, 7th-8th Century AD (British Museum)
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Fire Bell, Glendale, Arizona.