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1990bacon
Registrace 6. 03. 2007
This channel pulls together all the video's I have been involved in creating. A lot of them are on other channels, that is purely because other people are involved in their creations as well.
Bell Ringing: It's Harder Than It Looks
Watch Ant Smith learn to bell ring at churches in Yorkshire. Can he do it? Will he be good enough to ring at Bradford Cathedral?
Presented by Ant Smith
Produced and Directed by Adam Bacon
© Adam Bacon 2011
Presented by Ant Smith
Produced and Directed by Adam Bacon
© Adam Bacon 2011
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Great vlog
How is it that you’re pulling the rope and the bell is not ringing? How do you silence the bells?
This brings back memories of when I first learnt to ring
🤓. 💝. 🎸. 🤓
Harder than it looks? -- and I looks HARD. . .
Having just started the beginning of this is exactly how I feel!!
I have been bell ringing for two months but only very brief rope time and still don’t understand the technique of the backstroke and I keep losing the momentum of the bell. Very disheartening
I must have watched this 50 odd times now, one of the best short documentaries on ringing on CZcams! I especially appreciated how candid Ant was about any apprehensions or frustrations he felt; ringing is definitely one of those activities that requires a lot of practice to get to a point of stable-enough bell control, and even after decades of ringing the best ringers will still muck uo here and there 😂 I've been learning to ring for about 8 months now, and am about to move on to call changes for the first time, so I'm super excited (also nervous lol) to get started on that!
Handling the bell is the easy bit! Ringing in time with others, gaining "rope sight", and then learning methods are the tricky bits.
I went for my first lesson tonight and I've stupidly given myself a rope burn, I forgot to let go.
Hope you're getting on OK! Lmk hos things are going!
So negative tho
very good indeed!! its also nice that the tower found a way to keep its Doncaster canons without cutting them off !
This is really cool! Great job mate !
Imagine he broke the stay
Remember watching this religiously when learning to ring, this was 4 years ago, now ringing on 10 and 12 some practice nights, been a short but interesting journey.
Have you continued with ringing?
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Do you still ring?
Be nice if he was!
@@fredmills368Sadly not 😢
3:54 I think the bell won't ring.
tea tev its because the clapper is tied back
Comgratulations to the young boy! It hasn't been easy at all...
Excellent well made film.
do you still ring ?
i live in aus now but i learned to ring when i was 8 in the uk
Deborah came to my church in redditch yesterday in ipsley I recognised her the secon she came in She helped me with ringing and thanks to her my ringing is much better
Ringer Owen that’s good to hear good ringers and bad ringers are the same I am a ringer and I have been ringing for about 4 months and I’m good so practise makes perfect lol
I burn Toast ive been at it for 3 years
Just learning myself and it is as you say a lot harder than it looks. Hope your going to continue ringing bells.
I ring in Birmingham and I have been doing it for years. It is the most amazing thing.
I rang the bell of lebret 2 times
I’ve always wanted to learn.
See www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Faduls-Encyclopedia-of-Bells-by-Jose-A-Fadul-Paperback-2015-/302510738073
Don’t worry, i’m a bellringer newbie... i just did some practice rings at Worcester Cathedral
0:13 The reason you're having such a hard time is that you forgot to spit on your hands before grasping the sally! :-)
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Ewwwwwwwww, noooooooo why would you do thattttt 😭😭😭😭 just use chalk if you want better gripppppp
Great video, blokes a massive nerd who presents it though. Nevertheless, it's alright
Nahhh, what's wrong with being a nerd? lol
Thanks for all the comments. Sad to say I’m no longer ringing but the time I spent on this was very enjoyable!
andrew bellringer I don’t know if you can tell from the video BUT... I wasn’t very good at it! Hehe. But also it wasn’t for me.
Ant Smith i completed 5 levels in under 3 years i also got highly commended award runner up
@@ant4buffy don't think like that id say you did very well mate
@@ant4buffyfor just 4 weeks of training, you did brilliantly! you seemed to pick things up pretty alright, and the odd mistake here and there is merely down to being new to ringing. sad to hear you're not ringing anymore, but i understand if you felt it wasn't right for you. props to you nonetheless :)
@@ant4buffy you got the technique quite quick i have been ringing for a year now and i rung every single bell at my old tower apart from the tenor at my new tower i ring the tenor of 8 bells it took me ages to get my following as good as it is now
Excellent video demonstration.
Soo cool :D im by a church right now and herd the bells and I always wondered how it worked lol
great !!!
Y%(
Thanks, I enjoyed the video! I'm rereading Dorothy Sayers' The Nine Tailors and this video made the bell ringing parts of the book make sense to me.
millefolia i have that book
I usted yo ring the bells in the presbiterian church and one of them was super heavy
There is something magical about the bell ringing ... In the city of Yaroslavl, the bell tower of the Assumption Cathedral has not yet been built. Students of the bell-ringing school every day (and in winter and summer) at 17.00 give concerts near the cathedral. czcams.com/video/qGoIB9zsqNE/video.html
This is great... I have the same almost feelings when starting joint the group... Mix emotion of gladness to nervous...
Hard to imagine those hand pads would be that clean with so many hundreds of hands pulling on them thousands of times. Of course 99% of that great tradition of bell-ringing isn't done by hand and they're definitely not "regular" bells heard in the background of these videos or pealing in the distance during British travel propaganda/documentaries. Standard bells just don't ring like that folks. And damn sure not when the clapper is laying against the shell as they're flipped damn near vertically during "change ringing". Bells only have a very narrow range of travel on their "upstroke" between being struck or rather the bell striking the hammer and then catching it and carrying it, which kills the sound immediately. TUBULAR bells with gong strikers are what's being rung in those churches. I don't care what these videos show while implying its just a regular bell being "artistically" operated that's making those clean, clear and long notes. Like I said, they don't ring when the clapper is laying on the shell.
what
What tosh, you don't know what you are talking about.
Rob Davis exactly there's no such thing as upstroke
The Salle (the padded bit on the rope that you pull on for the hand stroke) is usually made from wool and wool is self cleaning. The other stroke is called backstroke and there are no hammers involved, only clappers. I've been ringing for 2 months now.
Firstly, those "hand pads" are called salles, and they're washed with the rope every so often. The entirety of bellringing is done by hand, each bell being entirely operated by humans. The ringing sounds in TV, film and videos is done entirely on regular bells that you'll find in your local church or cathedral. There's 2 types of stroke, the handstroke and backstroke; there's no such thing as an "upstroke", as you call it. When any church or hand bell is rung, the clapper rests against the inside of the bell, which creates the ringing sound you hear. Because the bell is moving, the clapper doesn't rest on the inside for long, so it doesn't sound muted as a result. There is absolutely no way that a tubular bell could possibly be used in change ringing, because they aren't loud enough, nor does the sound contain the partials that church bells do, meaning they cannot produce the same sound whatsoever. Secondly, full-circle bellringing, as seen in this video, has been around since the early 1600s, while tubular bells were invented and used for the first time in 1886. Furthermore, tubular bells and church bells are both rung by hand, which completely disproves what you said about them "not being rung by hand". And, having been up into a church belfry many times over the last few months, having been right up close to the bells, putting on/removing ties and even seeing and hearing the bell being rung 5 foot from me, I can confirm there are no tubular bells up there. Just your typical church bells mounted on wheels. It's clear from what you've said that you know absolutely nothing about bellringing, or bells, for that matter. You're trying so, so hard to create a conspiracy theory about bellringing and spread rampant misinformation about the tradition. Please, do more in future to actually learn about the subject than just blindly conjecturing about it.
I ring at a tower near Leeds in Yorkshire in a town called Chapel Allerton. These are a nice and easy 6.
Yeah all that bell weight
I'll just hang on it it will be easy if I go to new york
Look good on my own wall and then we will all the best to the best and the best in our life and
Thank you, Vicky, truly a master of words
Ant, I really enjoyed your video, but you're way too hard on yourself.
I know how to bell ring and I'm 10
Kinghugo The1st well done u
Same
It has taken me less than a month to learn bell ringing and now I ring the 4 at Glastonbury Somerset
it look me like a year to learn lol, (still learning now obviously) i started when i was 11, and yh it's definitely harder then it looks 😂😂 gd video