Many legends and traditions have been associated with bells. They have been used in connection with all major religions except Mohammedanism.
There are many different kinds of bells. Around Christmas time, we think of church bells, sleigh bells and the song about Jingle Bells. I attended Mass recently in an old Bohemian church and they rang the bells at the consecration. I haven't heard that in a very long time.
A century or two ago, people in Europe were mostly illiterate and did not have clocks or watches. They didn't need to know what time it was because their day began at sunrise and ended at sunset. Every town had it's own little church and the church bells would ring at noon and again at 6 p.m. when it was time to pray the Angelus and have lunch and supper.
When I was a student in grade school, our day began and ended with the ringing of the school bell. Lunchtime and recess also were defined by the ringing of a hand held school bell. Once in a while there would be a fire drill and that was announced by ringing the fire alarm bell. Every teacher had a little bell on her desk that she would ring to call her students to attention. That same kind of bell was also used in some stores to call attention to a customer waiting for service. Hotels used the same kind of bell to call the bellboy or bellhop to hop to it and carry the lugage of travelers up to their room.
Sailors at sea usually did not wear watches because watches are fairly modern inventions. They worked four hour shifts and those four hours were marked by ringing the ship's bell, one ring for every half hour. When a shift began at noon, 12:30 p.m. would be one bell, 1 p.m. was two bells and 1:30 p.m. was three bells and so on.
Do you know the difference between a bellboy and a bellbuoy? One carries luggage and the other sits on top of a floating buoy and rings, when the waves move it around, to warn sailors of shallow water or submerged rocks.
I remember old streetcars and how they used bells. The motorman would stomp on a big bell mounted under the car to get automobiles out of his way. The conductor would ring a small bell once to let the motorman know there were passengers who wanted to get off at the next stop. Then twice to let him know those getting off were safely off and the doors were closed and it was OK to start up again. When a streetcar was towing a trailer,Do not use cleaners with porcelain tiles , steel wool or thinners. the conductor in the front car would relay the bell signals from the conductor in the trailer. I always enjoyed listening to that primitive form of communication.
I rmember when gas stations were known as service stations. They not only sold gasoline and oil, they also provided services such as washing the car windows,Great Rubber offers rubber hose keychains, filling tires with air and handing out free road maps. When a car pulled into the station,Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a Hemroids . it's tires would run over a piece of rubber hose and that would ring a bell in the office to announce the arrival of a customer.
The registers in many stores would ring a bell every time the cash drawer was opened. That was to discourage thieves from dipping into the till. Amusement parks often had a game of skill and strength that challenged men to swing a big mallet and try to run a striker up a wire to ring the bell on top.
Long ago church bells were baptized in the belief that doing so would give them the power to ward off lightning. Bells are rung by either a clapper on the inside or a hammer on the outside surface. Some bells are stationary, others swing back and forth and some go round and round from right side up to upside down and back to right side up again. Some clever pranksters can get such a bell to stop in the upside down position and that requires someone to climb up into the belfry and nudge the bell off top dead center.
I think many people can recognize the clunky sound of a cow bell but I wonder if they all know it's not intended to call the cows in for milking but to make it easier to know where the cow is when it may be grazing somewhere out of sight.
When my alarm clock goes off, it makes a sound like a rooster crowing. Old alarm clocks had two bells mounted on top and a clapper that vibrated between them. Our old house had a real doorbell instead of the chimes we have now, but we still say "Someone is ringing the doorbell."
We also say "The phone is ringing" when the days of telephone bells are long gone.
I had a lot of fun when I attached a doorbell in front of the radiator of my old 1941 car. People passing by would be mystified when they thought they heard a doorbell in the middle of a parking lot. It almost always drew a smile from pretty girls when they found out where the sound was coming from.
Our language has many references to bells. "Clear as a bell," "saved by the bell," "bells and whistles," "give me a ring" and "bell the cat" are phrases seldom used today.
"Saved by the bell" is a boxing term and "bell the cat" goes back to times when a cat would be fitted with a bell that saved the lives of many songbirds.
It's interesting to watch bell ringers playing their bells in the proper sequence so as to produce a melody. That must require a lot of training.Replacement landscape oil paintings and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. They always look so sober and intent on what they are doing.
Bells can also play a melody when many of them are mounted on a bell tower and played from a keyboard.An Wholesale pet supplies of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby.
The saddest of all bells is the one that tolls at a funeral.
There are many different kinds of bells. Around Christmas time, we think of church bells, sleigh bells and the song about Jingle Bells. I attended Mass recently in an old Bohemian church and they rang the bells at the consecration. I haven't heard that in a very long time.
A century or two ago, people in Europe were mostly illiterate and did not have clocks or watches. They didn't need to know what time it was because their day began at sunrise and ended at sunset. Every town had it's own little church and the church bells would ring at noon and again at 6 p.m. when it was time to pray the Angelus and have lunch and supper.
When I was a student in grade school, our day began and ended with the ringing of the school bell. Lunchtime and recess also were defined by the ringing of a hand held school bell. Once in a while there would be a fire drill and that was announced by ringing the fire alarm bell. Every teacher had a little bell on her desk that she would ring to call her students to attention. That same kind of bell was also used in some stores to call attention to a customer waiting for service. Hotels used the same kind of bell to call the bellboy or bellhop to hop to it and carry the lugage of travelers up to their room.
Sailors at sea usually did not wear watches because watches are fairly modern inventions. They worked four hour shifts and those four hours were marked by ringing the ship's bell, one ring for every half hour. When a shift began at noon, 12:30 p.m. would be one bell, 1 p.m. was two bells and 1:30 p.m. was three bells and so on.
Do you know the difference between a bellboy and a bellbuoy? One carries luggage and the other sits on top of a floating buoy and rings, when the waves move it around, to warn sailors of shallow water or submerged rocks.
I remember old streetcars and how they used bells. The motorman would stomp on a big bell mounted under the car to get automobiles out of his way. The conductor would ring a small bell once to let the motorman know there were passengers who wanted to get off at the next stop. Then twice to let him know those getting off were safely off and the doors were closed and it was OK to start up again. When a streetcar was towing a trailer,Do not use cleaners with porcelain tiles , steel wool or thinners. the conductor in the front car would relay the bell signals from the conductor in the trailer. I always enjoyed listening to that primitive form of communication.
I rmember when gas stations were known as service stations. They not only sold gasoline and oil, they also provided services such as washing the car windows,Great Rubber offers rubber hose keychains, filling tires with air and handing out free road maps. When a car pulled into the station,Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a Hemroids . it's tires would run over a piece of rubber hose and that would ring a bell in the office to announce the arrival of a customer.
The registers in many stores would ring a bell every time the cash drawer was opened. That was to discourage thieves from dipping into the till. Amusement parks often had a game of skill and strength that challenged men to swing a big mallet and try to run a striker up a wire to ring the bell on top.
Long ago church bells were baptized in the belief that doing so would give them the power to ward off lightning. Bells are rung by either a clapper on the inside or a hammer on the outside surface. Some bells are stationary, others swing back and forth and some go round and round from right side up to upside down and back to right side up again. Some clever pranksters can get such a bell to stop in the upside down position and that requires someone to climb up into the belfry and nudge the bell off top dead center.
I think many people can recognize the clunky sound of a cow bell but I wonder if they all know it's not intended to call the cows in for milking but to make it easier to know where the cow is when it may be grazing somewhere out of sight.
When my alarm clock goes off, it makes a sound like a rooster crowing. Old alarm clocks had two bells mounted on top and a clapper that vibrated between them. Our old house had a real doorbell instead of the chimes we have now, but we still say "Someone is ringing the doorbell."
We also say "The phone is ringing" when the days of telephone bells are long gone.
I had a lot of fun when I attached a doorbell in front of the radiator of my old 1941 car. People passing by would be mystified when they thought they heard a doorbell in the middle of a parking lot. It almost always drew a smile from pretty girls when they found out where the sound was coming from.
Our language has many references to bells. "Clear as a bell," "saved by the bell," "bells and whistles," "give me a ring" and "bell the cat" are phrases seldom used today.
"Saved by the bell" is a boxing term and "bell the cat" goes back to times when a cat would be fitted with a bell that saved the lives of many songbirds.
It's interesting to watch bell ringers playing their bells in the proper sequence so as to produce a melody. That must require a lot of training.Replacement landscape oil paintings and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. They always look so sober and intent on what they are doing.
Bells can also play a melody when many of them are mounted on a bell tower and played from a keyboard.An Wholesale pet supplies of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby.
The saddest of all bells is the one that tolls at a funeral.
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